An attempt to whistle-blow on social ticks whilst gaining the upper intellectual hand by writing the critique in definitional form. However, that one eats itself.
Hey - I know I should be working but I can't stop thinking about all the possible refinitions. When there's no ref, all ya got left to defend your rights is yo gun?
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."