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Domming- (Dommanicing)-(French informal) The act of being absent from school or work without an excuse derived from the Dutch term dommenicus (spelen) 'hide-and-seek'. The Dutch word dommen means 'corner'-- the boys in 17th-century New Amsterdam played this game around the corners of the street. Hide-and-seek was a different game back then--the players had to search for a hidden object. Although Domming originally referred to the game of hide-and-seek, it also had other meanings in the 17th and 18th centuries. It wasn't until the 19th century that schoolchildren began using play domming to mean 'skip school.'