| 释义 |
skeevy, a. U.S. slang.
Brit. |skiːvi|, U.S. |skivi|
Forms: 19– skeevie, 19– skeevy
[‹ Italian regional (Tuscany) schifo, adjective (> adj.) + -y suffix1. Compare later skeeve v., skeeve n.]
Disgusting, distasteful, or dirty; discomforting; sleazy.
1976J. D'Alessandro in Philadelphia Mag. Mar. 125/1 The word ‘skeevie’ used by South Philadelphians to indicate something disgusting is from Italian ‘schifare’, to loathe. 1991Newsday (Nexis) 3 Nov. Zevon has built a career on well-crafted pop songs that tend to be either smartass and sensitive or smartass and skeevy. 1994Rolling Stone 22 Sept. He's trying to get her to give him one [sc. a massage], and I think with another guy it would have come across kind of skeevy. But Jerry's got this quality that..made it..innocent and boyish. 2001K. Walker & M. Schone Son of Grifter xvii. 155, I suffered through a few months of late hours as the front-desk clerk at a skeevy Vegas motel. |