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▪ I. skivvy, n.1 colloq. (usu. derogatory).|ˈskɪvɪ|
Also scivey, skivey.
[Of obscure origin.]
A female domestic servant, esp. a maid-of-all-work. Also transf.
1902H. Baumann Londinismen (ed. 2) 211/2 Skivey,..slav(e)y. 1913C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. ii. iv. 195 The ball had landed twice..on the same balcony to the great annoyance of the ‘skivvy’, who was..invited to bung it down. 1915W. Owen Let. 23 Nov. (1967) 367, I never thought myself capable of such strenuosities as to do skivvy's drudgery. 1938L. Durrell Black Book 240 Gwen, that dirty little skivvy, smelling of..grease from the sink! 1947E. Wilson Europe without Baedeker viii. 206 You were waited on by slovenly skivvies so pallidly unappetizing that they made the meager food seem more tasteless. 1961‘F. O'Brien’ Hard Life vii. 52 The young people of today think the daddy is a tramp and the mammy a poor skivvy. 1974Times 1 May 4/5 This represents a change in the nurses' attitude. No longer will you be the skivvies of the health service. 1977Punch 31 Aug.–6 Sept. 331/1 Blossom, the strikingly handsome new scivvy, is mixing her a posset.
Hence ˈskivvy v. intr., to work as a skivvy; ˈskivvying vbl. n.
1931R. Campbell Georgiad ii. 44 Every Nellie, Gertie Or Daisy that..ever left her own unlettered stews To skivvy in the kitchen of the Muse. 1968Punch 21 Feb. 287/1 There are now better jobs than skivvying to look for, and wages sometimes comparable with what the job-seeking housewife herself might be earning. 1973J. Thomson Death Cap ii. 33 It wasn't no skivvying job... Mrs King treated me like a friend. 1974W. Foley Child in Forest ii. 156 She come up to skivvy in the same place as you, then?
▪ II. skivvy, n.2|ˈskɪvɪ|
Also scivvy, skivie, skivvie.
[Of unknown origin.]
1. N. Amer. slang (orig. Naut.).
a. An undershirt, a vest. Also skivvy shirt.
b. pl. Underclothes.
1932J. L. D'Esque Count in Fo'c'sle 216 He cut away the unconscious engineer's shirt and skivie with his jack⁓knife. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §900/6 Skivvie shirt, an undervest. 1944C. Mackenzie Sailors of Fortune 95 The Red Cross woman brought me khaki trousers, scivvy shirt and a left shoe. 1945Seafarers' Log 9 Nov. 6/3 Chips appeared, also gassed up, in his skivvies. 1946T. Heggen Mister Roberts 7 It now contained a soiled scivvy shirt. 1953S. Bellow Adventures Augie March 28 We had to brush our teeth with salt..and sleeping in skivvies, was outlawed; we had to wear pajamas. 1967‘J. Cross’ To Hell for Half-a-Crown ii. 36 The..biceps straining at the white skivvy shirt. 1972R. White Be not Afraid xvii. 206 We jumped out of our sleeping bags.., only realizing after we had recovered the gear that we were barefoot and in skivvies in subzero weather. 1978W. Hjortsberg Falling Angel xxxviii. 184 Ethan Krusemark, wearing boxer shorts and a skivvy, lay on his back..doing leg presses.
2. A high-necked lightweight pullover or jumper.
1967Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 Feb. 14/4 (caption) This waistcoat should be a winner on the winter scene teamed with white long-sleeved skivvy. 1972New York 8 May 20/1 (Advt.), Sleeveless skivvy (shown under the cardigans) in peach or pale blue. 1972D. Sale Love Bite xix. 239 She was wearing a navy-blue jump suit over a black skivvy, so that she wouldn't be seen in the dark. |