TRUANT

truant, awol

(adjective) absent without permission; “truant schoolboys”; “the soldier was AWOL for almost a week”

nonattender, no-show, truant

(noun) someone who shirks duty

truant, hooky player

(noun) one who is absent from school without permission

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

truant (not comparable)

Absent without permission, especially from school.

Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.

Noun

truant (plural truants)

One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

Verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

(intransitive) To play truant.

(transitive) To idle away; to waste.

To idle away time.

Anagrams

• traunt

Source: Wiktionary

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Tru"ant, n. Etym: [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.]

Definition: 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

Tru"ant, a.

Definition: 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.

Tru"ant, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. truander.]

Definition: 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.

Tru"ant, v. t.

Definition: To idle away; to waste. [R.] I dare not be the author Of truanting the time. Ford.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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