0 a person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning: --
He treats me like a skivvy.
1 a tight-fitting piece of clothing for the top part of the body, made of knitted cotton, with a high, round collar --
2 to do the dirty, unpleasant jobs in the house: --
I'm not going to skivvy for you any more.
Piddock's regularly asked if he'll hang up his actor skivvy to become a full-time screenwriter, but says loves both acting and writing equally so wants to continue to do both.
We ended up being his skivvies for the night literally making pizza and frying chicken for him.
The skivvy is coming into her own.
It is a skivvy scheme.
Now the kitchen maid has disappeared from the upper middle class—the lower middle class only had "skivvies"—and the upper middle class is therefore very much hurt.
The taxpayer would then not have to find the £2 billion now needed for the skivvy youth training and community programme schemes.
We are not part of the unfortunate skivvy world of third-world nations.
They were kept in a cellar, not properly fed and used as skivvies.
