Editing Truancy (section)

==Slang expressions==
There are a number of expressions in most languages which refer to truancy.

* [[Antigua and Barbuda]]: ''skudding''.
* [[Argentina]]: ''ratearse''.
* [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]: ''escaping'' or ''eluding''.
* [[France]]: drying (class) refers to truancy. "Faire l'école buissonière" or "l'école de la vie" is also used.
* [[Germany]]: ''schwänzen''.
* [[Guyana]]: ''skulking''.
* [[Ireland]]: ''dossing'', ''mitching''
* [[Italy]]: ''marinare'' marinating (school)
* [[Jamaica]]: ''skulling''.
* [[Japan]]: ''futoko''
* [[Mexico]]: ''pintearse''.
* [[New Zealand]] and [[Australia]]: ''wagging'', ''jigging'', ''ditching'', ''bludging'', or ''skipping school''.
* [[Netherlands]] and [[Belgium]] ([[Flanders]]) ''spijbelen'', ''schoolziek''.
* [[Pakistan]] and [[India]]: ''bunking''.
* [[Philippines]]: ''skipping'' or ''cutting class''.
* [[Poland]]: ''wagary'' or ''wagarowanie''.

* [[Romania]]: ''a chiuli''.
* [[Singapore]] and [[Malaysia]]: ''pon, short for ponteng''.
* [[South Africa]]: ''bunking'', ''mulling'', ''skipping'' or ''jippo''
* [[Trinidad and Tobago]]: ''breaking biche''.
* [[United Kingdom]]: ''bunking (off)'', ''skiving'', ''wagging'', ''kipping'', ''mitching'', ''twagging'', or ''on the knock''.
** [[Liverpool]]: ''cutting class'', ''doggin'', ''playing {{Not a typo|tickie}}'' or ''puggin''.
** [[Greater Manchester]]: ''legging''.
** [[Wales]]: ''sagging'', ''on the mitch''.
** [[Scotland]]: ''on the hop'', ''doggin it'', ''beaking'' or ''on the beak'', ''ticking it''.
* [[United States]] and [[Canada]]: ''(playing) hooky'', ''ditching'', ''dipping'', ''skipping'', ''cutting (class)''.
** [[Newfoundland and Labrador]]: ''pipping off'', ''on the pip''.
** [[Utah]]: a ''sluff'' commonly refers to a truancy.