Crossword clues for skivvy
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work. 2 (context military slang Vietnam War English) A prostitute. 3 (context Australia New Zealand English) A close-fitting, long-sleeved t-shirt with a rolled collar. vb. (cx intransitive English) To perform menial work; to do chores, like a servant.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Skivvy may refer to:
- Undergarments, (primarily in the United States)
- Polo neck or turtle neck shirt, (primarily in the United States and Australasia)
- Maid, servant, or person at the bottom of the social order (primarily in Britain)
Usage examples of "skivvy".
In another part of the ship, Petty Officer First Class Sheldon Bonner stripped to his skivvies and lay back on his rack, an envelope in his left hand.
Swindled them all, skivvies and badhachs from the county Meath, ay, and his own kidney too.
Schoeneman as King Neptune, suitably attired and wielding a gilded trident symbolic of his office, held court on the fantail and decreed various ordeals for the pollywogs, who had been ordered to appear before him wearing only white regulation, boxer-type skivvy shorts.
Except for a few cook-house skivvies tending fires and cleaning, no one was about.
Finally, everything else I was wearing came off, apart from my skivvies, and was quickly placed on top of the jacket.
He had no objection if Peter wanted his ring back, so he calmly pulled on his skivvies and headed down the hall for a hot tub.
They were in skivvies and stickyslippers, their spacesuits bobbing from hooks on the wall behind them.
Marine in the room was sitting in his skivvies on his unmade rack, looking the worse for wear.
The housekeeper's little skivvy, that she keeps to fetch, carry and lick boot, just topping the tea-cup up with old Jamaica, all hell breaks loose below stairs as if a Chinese orchestra started up its woodblocks and xylophones, crash, wallop.
A mess - fly unzipped, crew cut matted down both sides of his head, beard let go for two days, holed skivvy shirt pushed by his beer belly through a few open buttons on his shirt - he pedaled away wobbly for the flophouse.
To Jake he looked much like a chairman of the board solving a million-dollar problem, except that he wore only skivvies.
Looking around, I saw Timothy Njeri unconscious on the floor beside my teakettle—he was still in his skivvies, while I was buck naked—and Daniel Eunoto slumped in a corner sleeping the sleep of the sledgehammered.
They have no patience with farbs wearing Speedo skivvies under their wool pants.
Ethan Krusemark, wearing boxer shorts and a skivvy, lay on his back under one of these shining contraptions, doing leg presses.
The women’s branch has either Numerary Assistants—they’re basically skivvies who keep house for the higher-ups—or Numeraries like the men’s.