skeeves

Verb

skeeve (third-person singular simple present skeeves, present participle skeeving, simple past and past participle skeeved)

1. (often, slang, transitive) To disgust or disturb.
   • His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.1993, Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love, page 16
2. (slang, transitive) To be disgusted or disturbed by.
   • You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner, page 727
3. (intransitive, slang) To be or become disgusted.
   • I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.1993, James McCourt, Time Remaining, →ISBN, page 67

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