If a pupil truants, he or she stays away from school without permission. In his fourth year he was truanting regularly. + truanting tru·ant·ing Truanting is a small but growing problem in primary schools. = truancy
[ 'trü-&nt ] (noun.) 15th century. Middle English, vagabond, idler, from Old French, vagrant, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish trógán wretch, trúag wretched.