Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 Is this mostly a US expression? What do you Brits say? ("Playing truant" sounds a bit stiff and formal.) Vote up! 0 Vote down! 4 Bunking off Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 Not to be confused with bunking up. Although there is nothing stopping you from having a bunk up while you're bunking off. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 I assume it's an English (cockneyish) phrase for being a bit moody. hence "long live hookey st" in the only fools song Vote up! 0 Vote down! 4 I see from urbdic and wiktionary that I am wrong. does make me wonder where that lyric came from tho. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 skiving Vote up! 0 Vote down! 4 What JC said Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 I’d always heard the Only Fools lyric as “long live Cookie Street.” Vote up! 0 Vote down! 6 In Oz it’s called wagging no idea why Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 It was called wagging at my school as well (which was not in Australia). Having looked it up it seems the derivation is from an old term for mischievous boy. Vote up! 0 Vote down! 6 At my school it was called shirking. Refresh Back to board Join the discussion Login Register
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 Not to be confused with bunking up. Although there is nothing stopping you from having a bunk up while you're bunking off.
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 I assume it's an English (cockneyish) phrase for being a bit moody. hence "long live hookey st" in the only fools song
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 4 I see from urbdic and wiktionary that I am wrong. does make me wonder where that lyric came from tho.
Vote up! 0 Vote down! 5 It was called wagging at my school as well (which was not in Australia). Having looked it up it seems the derivation is from an old term for mischievous boy.
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Bunking off
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Not to be confused with bunking up.
Although there is nothing stopping you from having a bunk up while you're bunking off.
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I assume it's an English (cockneyish) phrase for being a bit moody. hence "long live hookey st" in the only fools song
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I see from urbdic and wiktionary that I am wrong. does make me wonder where that lyric came from tho.
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skiving
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What JC said
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I’d always heard the Only Fools lyric as “long live Cookie Street.”
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In Oz it’s called wagging
no idea why
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It was called wagging at my school as well (which was not in Australia).
Having looked it up it seems the derivation is from an old term for mischievous boy.
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At my school it was called shirking.
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