skivvy
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skivvy
- /ˈskɪvi/
Rhymes with -ɪvi
noun skivvies · skivvie · skivy
- A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work. And then Somerset looked at the boys′ skivvy, and saw a well set up young woman with a red round face, an angry face just then but underneath the anger a pleasant one.
- A prostitute.
- A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar. Then dark blood squirts from a little hole in Sergeant Gerheim's chest. The red blood blossoms into his white skivvy shirt like a beautiful flower.
verb skivvies · skivvying · skivvied · skivvie · skivy
- To perform menial work; to do chores, like a servant. We went out by turns, or sent out the apprentices who skivvied for us, to fetch in roast pork […]