Skivvy - What does it mean?
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(dated) A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work.
* 1974 , '', ''Alms for Oblivion , Volume 3, 2012,
* 2002 , Krzysztof Miklaszewski, George M. Hyde (translator, editor), Encounters with Tadeusz Kantor ,
* 2005 , Jenny Telfer Chaplin, The Widow of Candleriggs ,
(military slang, Vietnam War) A prostitute.
(Australia, New Zealand) A close-fitting, long-sleeved t-shirt with a rolled collar.
* 1998 , Tom Byron, The History of Spearfishing and Scuba Diving in Australia ,
* 2005 , ,
* 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 ,
skivvy
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(skivvies)page 194,
- 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.
page 143,
- The common skivvy' from the mortuary clings immoveably to the priest?s bed, which is just as immoveably guarded by the grandmother, who drives her off with a chamberpot. The ' skivvy is the photographer?s widow, trying to take a picture.
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- “Yes, that was Mac?s Restaurant and I was a kitchen skivvy' there, but amazingly, a kitchen ' skivvy who had actually written a poem. Oh it?s all a very long time ago, Theresa, and so much has happened since then.”
page 191,
- I put my wetsuit and skivvy on a tree to dry, and laid out my other gear on some grass.
page 224,
- ‘He looks so good. He shouldn?t be allowed to wear a black skivvy . Doesn?t he have the most amazing muscles?’
page 41,
- The button-down shirts and plain coloured skivvies were replaced by beads, fringed shawls and loose fitting Asian-style tops.