資料來源 : pyDict
懶惰鬼,曠課者偷懶的,曠課的,遊蕩的偷懶,曠課
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Truant \Tru"ant\, v. i. [Cf. F. truander.]
To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.
--Shak.
By this means they lost their time and truanted on the
fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. --Lowell.
Truant \Tru"ant\, v. t.
To idle away; to waste. [R.]
I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. --Ford.
Truant \Tru"ant\, n. [F. truand, OF. truant, a vagrant, beggar;
of Celtic origin; cf. W. tru, truan, wretched, miserable,
truan a wretch, Ir. trogha miserable, Gael. truaghan a poor,
distressed, or wretched creature, truagh wretched.]
One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one
who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer;
a shirk. --Dryden.
I have a truant been to chivalry. --Shak.
{To play truant}, to stray away; to loiter; especially, to
stay out of school without leave. --Sir T. Browne
Truant \Tru"ant\, a.
Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and
shirking duty; as, a truant boy.
While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on
Olympus' side. --Trumbull.
資料來源 : WordNet®
truant
adj : absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier
was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: {awol}]
n 1: one who is absent from school without permission [syn: {hooky
player}]
2: someone who shirks duty [syn: {no-show}, {nonattender}]