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skivvy

  • /ˈskɪvi/

Rhymes with -ɪvi

noun skivvies · skivvie · skivy

  1. dated 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.
  2. slang A prostitute.
  3. Australia, New Zealand, US 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

  1. intransitive 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 […]

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