truant
意味
- (学校を)ずる休みする生徒,無断欠席者
- 《軽べつして》仕事をなまける人,さぼる人
- (学校を)ずる休みする
- (仕事・義務を)なまける
例文
Quite a few students played truant from school.
かなり多くの学生が学校をサボった。
My father beat me almost black and blue for playing truant from school.
学校をサボった事で、父は僕をあざができるほどたたいた。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *taratrom, from Proto-Indo-European *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).