scivvy
scivvy is the alternative form of skivvy.
Meaning of skivvy
Noun
skivvy (plural skivvies)
- A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work.
- And then Somerset looked at the boys′ skivvy, and saw a well set up young woman with a red round face, an angry face just then but underneath the anger a pleasant one.1974, Simon Raven, Bring Forth the Body: Alms for Oblivion, volume 3, published 2012, page 194
- A prostitute.
- A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar.
- Then dark blood squirts from a little hole in Sergeant Gerheim's chest. The red blood blossoms into his white skivvy shirt like a beautiful flower.1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 30
Forms of scivvy
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Questions about scivvy
- What is scivvy the alternative form of?
- Scivvy is the alternative form of skivvy.
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