verb
(transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
(intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
(Ireland, Wales, ambitransitive) To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
(intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
(intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.