Skivvy

/ˈskɪvi/

Synonyms for "skivvy" (10 found)

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Noun(2 words)
domestic workergofer

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Noun(3 words)

Related words (5)

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domesticdomestic helpemployeehouse servantpersonworker

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Collocations

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British slangclass markerderogatory termdomestic servantfemale domestic workerlow status worker

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Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

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"No, you clean it! I'm not your skivvy!" she said.

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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.

Source: wiktionary

2002, Krzysztof Miklaszewski, George M. Hyde (translator, editor), Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor, page 143, The common skivvy from the mortuary clings immoveably to the priest′s bed, which is just as immoveably guarded by the grandmother, who drives her off with a chamberpot. The skivvy is the photographer′s widow, trying to take a picture.

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“[…]Yes, that was Mac′s Restaurant and I was a kitchen skivvy there, but amazingly, a kitchen skivvy who had actually written a poem. Oh it′s all a very long time ago, Theresa, and so much has happened since then.”

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