noun, verb
noun (plural skivvies) (BrE, informal) a servant, usually female, who does all the dirty or boring jobs in a house:
He treats his wife like a skivvy.
verb (skivvies, skivvying, skivvied, skivvied) [V] (BrE, informal) to do dirty or boring jobs:
Her aunt kept her skivvying day and night.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for skivvy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does skivvy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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