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Definition of skivvy in English: skivvynounPlural skivvies ˈskɪviˈskɪvi 1British informal A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks. I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy Example sentencesExamples - In upper-class households there was often a hierarchy of servants ‘below stairs', ranging from the butler to kitchen skivvies.
- Be realistic: he is never going to tidy up if he has a skivvy to do it for him and give him back his stuff all sorted, clean, tidy and ready to use.
- She said the new laws would protect Pakistani teenagers who were brought over to be little more than skivvies to an unknown husband and his family.
- 1.1 A person doing work that is poorly paid and considered menial.
I'm really the office skivvy Example sentencesExamples - They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.
- What else can I do for anyone, since I seem to be everyone's skivvy this morning?
- Are they teachers, managers, social workers or skivvies?
- Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.
- He said: ‘Brian is my skivvy, but I will also help him in his preparations.’
- And the choice of placements totally eclipses the old stigma of office typist or work site skivvy.
2Australian US A lightweight high-necked long-sleeved garment. Example sentencesExamples - But Couples doesn't wear a skivvy shirt under his golf tunic to minimize the subcutaneous fat.
- Dressing only in skivvies, or tunics, with no armour or protection other than their sword skills, they were outnumbered and outplayed.
- We progress through his experiences as though carried in his pocket, attached to his dogtags, or tucked in his skivvies.
- I had worn a black skivvy with my favourite pair of faded jeans and my white sneakers.
- All his friends attended and he even broke out the red skivvy for the special day.
- Wear your western shirt open and untucked over a skivvy to draw the eye down and create the illusion of a more sculpted, leaner silhouette.
- This new Ozzie skivvy is designed in a similar style to that used by the Norwegian Army, but of a uniquely Australian material.
- The brown skivvy, open and zipped up, may be worn with dress order 4A DCPU barracks dress and 4B DPCU field dress.
- Acpec has introduced a combat skivvy as part of a cold weather ensemble to protect the soldier in the field.
- 2.1 A T-shirt or short-sleeved vest.
Example sentencesExamples - I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy.
3skivviesNorth American trademark Underwear consisting of a vest and underpants. Example sentencesExamples - Like the others, this trio was clad in their government-issue skivvies.
- But I still make him walk around at parties in his leopard print skivvies.
- At dawn the next morning I stood in my skivvies on the balcony of my room and surveyed the restless sea.
- After the shoot was over, Curtis decided to strip down to her skivvies and wash off the makeup for some real footage.
- One had pulled on jeans, one was in skivvy shorts, and one responded nude.
- He got down to his skivvies and climbed in the shower.
- I remember his raised eyebrows and the distinct embarrassment of being caught in my skivvies in front of a complete stranger.
- I imagine Beatrix eating organic vegetables and dancing around in hemp skivvies, but I can't get anywhere near her.
- Undies, underwear, or skivvies were all deemed acceptable.
- These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record.
- Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot.
- Just go to this link and find a short story that sends the shivers down to your skivvies.
- What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in.
- For a decade now, La Roche's Luk briefs, boxers, panties and undershirts have been synonymous with comfy-cozy yet fully sexy skivvies.
verbskivvies, skivvied, skivvyingˈskɪviˈskɪvi [no object]British informal Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy. I was skivvying for that Brixton family Example sentencesExamples - Burke's opportunity to ditch the skivvying came when his ailing grandfather divided up some inheritance money before passing away.
- Thank you, thank you for letting us come here and skivvy for you 12 hours a day for less than a fiver an hour.
- Antonin was taken in by a busy cook who offered him bed and board in exchange for skivvying.
Synonyms hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding
Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin. Rhymes bivvy, chivvy, civvy, divvy, Livy, privy, spivvy Definition of skivvy in US English: skivvynounˈskɪviˈskivē 1skivviesNorth American trademark Underwear, especially a set consisting of undershirt and underpants, or just the underpants. Example sentencesExamples - I remember his raised eyebrows and the distinct embarrassment of being caught in my skivvies in front of a complete stranger.
- One had pulled on jeans, one was in skivvy shorts, and one responded nude.
- At dawn the next morning I stood in my skivvies on the balcony of my room and surveyed the restless sea.
- I imagine Beatrix eating organic vegetables and dancing around in hemp skivvies, but I can't get anywhere near her.
- What's laughable is not the former dictator's skivvies, but military leaders' naivety about the media world we now live in.
- These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record.
- Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot.
- For a decade now, La Roche's Luk briefs, boxers, panties and undershirts have been synonymous with comfy-cozy yet fully sexy skivvies.
- He got down to his skivvies and climbed in the shower.
- But I still make him walk around at parties in his leopard print skivvies.
- Just go to this link and find a short story that sends the shivers down to your skivvies.
- After the shoot was over, Curtis decided to strip down to her skivvies and wash off the makeup for some real footage.
- Like the others, this trio was clad in their government-issue skivvies.
- Undies, underwear, or skivvies were all deemed acceptable.
2Australian US A lightweight high-necked, long-sleeved garment. Example sentencesExamples - I had worn a black skivvy with my favourite pair of faded jeans and my white sneakers.
- But Couples doesn't wear a skivvy shirt under his golf tunic to minimize the subcutaneous fat.
- We progress through his experiences as though carried in his pocket, attached to his dogtags, or tucked in his skivvies.
- This new Ozzie skivvy is designed in a similar style to that used by the Norwegian Army, but of a uniquely Australian material.
- Dressing only in skivvies, or tunics, with no armour or protection other than their sword skills, they were outnumbered and outplayed.
- Acpec has introduced a combat skivvy as part of a cold weather ensemble to protect the soldier in the field.
- The brown skivvy, open and zipped up, may be worn with dress order 4A DCPU barracks dress and 4B DPCU field dress.
- All his friends attended and he even broke out the red skivvy for the special day.
- Wear your western shirt open and untucked over a skivvy to draw the eye down and create the illusion of a more sculpted, leaner silhouette.
- 2.1 An undershirt or T-shirt.
Example sentencesExamples - About 109,000 skivvies / undershirts are in the process of being procured and issued.
- Some of the new stuff you can expect to see this year includes the wet weather ensemble, combat jacket and skivvy / undershirts.
3British informal A low-ranking female domestic servant. Example sentencesExamples - She said the new laws would protect Pakistani teenagers who were brought over to be little more than skivvies to an unknown husband and his family.
- In upper-class households there was often a hierarchy of servants ‘below stairs', ranging from the butler to kitchen skivvies.
- Be realistic: he is never going to tidy up if he has a skivvy to do it for him and give him back his stuff all sorted, clean, tidy and ready to use.
- 3.1 A person doing work that is poorly paid and considered menial.
Example sentencesExamples - And the choice of placements totally eclipses the old stigma of office typist or work site skivvy.
- What else can I do for anyone, since I seem to be everyone's skivvy this morning?
- He said: ‘Brian is my skivvy, but I will also help him in his preparations.’
- Are they teachers, managers, social workers or skivvies?
- Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.
- They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.
verbˈskɪviˈskivē [no object]British informal Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy. Example sentencesExamples - Thank you, thank you for letting us come here and skivvy for you 12 hours a day for less than a fiver an hour.
- Burke's opportunity to ditch the skivvying came when his ailing grandfather divided up some inheritance money before passing away.
- Antonin was taken in by a busy cook who offered him bed and board in exchange for skivvying.
Synonyms hard work, menial work, donkey work, toil, toiling, labour, hard labour, sweated labour, chores, plodding
Origin Early 20th century: of unknown origin. |