Because I feel like I’m sluffing work Today to get a Coronavirus test, I looked up the word Sluff and discovered it only exists in Utah, where I was taught it.
slough • \SLUFF\ • verb. 1: to skip class. In Utah.
Utah isn’t the only place with a cool name for playing hooky.
Wikipedia says “There are a number of expressions in most languages which refer to truancy”:
In South Africa, the slang used is bunking, mulling, skipping or jippo.
In Jamaica, it is called skulling.
In Guyana skulking.
In Antigua and Barbuda, it is called skudding.
In New Zealand and Australia truancy is called wagging, "jigging", ditching, or skipping school.
In the United Kingdom, mitching, twagging, "skiving" or on the knock.
In Wales, mitching orsagging.
In Liverpool, bunking or cutting class, doggin, skiving, playing tickie or puggin.
In Oldham, Lancashire, Legging.
In Scotland, on the hop, bunklng off, mitching, beaking, skiving, doggin it or on the beak.
In Ireland, mitching, on the hop, dossing, on the duck or skiving.
In the United States and Canada expressions include hooky, playing hooky, ditching, dipping, skipping, cutting class, or simply just cutting.
In the city of St. John's, the act of truancy is known amongst youths as pipping off, and truant students are described as being on the pip.
In Trinidad and Tobago, it is referred to as breaking biche.
In Singapore and Malaysia, it is referred to as fly.
In the state of Utah a sluff is a commonly used word referring to a truancy.