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   skivvy

   /ˈskɪvi/

   noun

   • 1. a female domestic servant who performs menial tasks: informal British "I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy"
   • ▪ a person doing work that is poorly paid and considered menial: "I'm really the office skivvy"
   • 2. a lightweight high-necked long-sleeved garment. US, Australian
   • ▪ a T-shirt or short-sleeved vest.
   • 3. underwear consisting of a vest and underpants. trademark in US

   verb

   • 1. do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy: informal British "I was skivvying for that Brixton family"

   Word Origin early 20th century: of unknown origin.

   Scrabble Points: 19

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   What does skivvy mean?

   • SKIVVY definition: 1. a person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such…. Learn more.

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   What is a simple example of a skivvy?

   • present simple: I skivvy, you skivvy [...] past simple: I skivvied, you skivvied [...] These examples have been automatically selected and may contain sensitive content that does not reflect the opinions or policies of Collins. Read more Dev was the only one who had tended to treat her like a skivvy.

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   What is a skivvy test?

   • skivvy for I'm not going to skivvy for you anymore. It is the kind of test where you have to surrender all belongings short of your skivvies and then depend on your memory. By the end, they were down to their sportswear skivvies. I was shocked to my skivvies.

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   Are navvies now skivvies?

   • They are now skivvies if not navvies in the hospitals. The officer's batman and the soldier "skivvy" to the officer's wife ought to be things of the past. They were kept in a cellar, not properly fed and used as skivvies. We are not part of the unfortunate skivvy world of third-world nations.

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   Definitions of 'skivvy' 1. mainly British often derogatory. a servant, esp female, who does menial work of all kinds; drudge. [...] 2. British. to work as a skivvy. [...] More. Conjugations of 'skivvy' present simple: I skivvy, you skivvy [...] past simple: I skivvied, you skivvied [...] past participle: skivvied. More.