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skeeve | skeeze |

As a verb skeeve

is to be disgusted.

As a noun skeeze is

a sleazy or sexually promiscuous person.

skeeve

English

Verb

(skeev)
  • (informal) To be disgusted.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 28, author=Penelope Green, title=Jersey Girls, Nesting, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says. }}

    skeeze

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skeez

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, mildly, pejorative) A sleazy or sexually promiscuous person.
  • Synonyms

    * skank, slut

    Derived terms

    * skeezy

    Quotations

    * 2000, "Frank Sinatra", in alt.gossip.celebrities [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gossip.celebrities/msg/1ca1a86244ecf841?dmode=source&hl=en] *: Jackie was an old skeeze with an IQ of about 85, and the only thing she was good at, apart from picking out Chanel suits, was lying under men who could put her on easy street. * 2002, George Pelecanos, Right as Rain [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0446610798&id=8fWhEX9XBhQC&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&sig=fNWI6rF9Qa4MtPpUL0bYXBLGijo] *: “You talkin’ about that skeeze over in the Yard?” * 2005, Bridgett, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.radio.talk.dr-laura/msg/5d9971dedc6c1713?dmode=source] *: In her 1950's ideal, 19 was the age to be married. The entire time they have been dating she has been an adult. DL uses the word teenager for shock value, to make this guy look like a skeeze .