as in housekeepers
a female domestic servant
the pop star's image as a working-class hero strains credulity now that he owns a large estate with an army of cooks, butlers, and skivvies to attend to his every want
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Recent Examples of skivvies
The two can be seen sharing kisses, showering and snuggling up — all in their skivvies.
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Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
In new photos from the Very VS Valentine’s campaign released on Wednesday, January 7, Bieber taps into her inner Victoria’s Secret Angel while stripping down to her skivvies.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
That is, before a portal tears through his door and Malevola, Invisigal, and Royd walk in to catch him in his skivvies.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
Riff Raff the butler, his moody sister Magenta, pajamas-wearing Columbia and, the creature in the golden skivvies?
—Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
In an interview with GQ, Malone admitted that stripping down to his skivvies was a bit intimidating.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Storekeepers lost your skivvies or turned them from white to gray by washing them with the colors?
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
In new photos from the Very VS Valentine’s campaign released on Wednesday, January 7, Bieber taps into her inner Victoria’s Secret Angel while stripping down to her skivvies.
—Lara Walsh, InStyle, 7 Jan. 2026
That is, before a portal tears through his door and Malevola, Invisigal, and Royd walk in to catch him in his skivvies.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
Riff Raff the butler, his moody sister Magenta, pajamas-wearing Columbia and, the creature in the golden skivvies?
—Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
In an interview with GQ, Malone admitted that stripping down to his skivvies was a bit intimidating.
—Catherine Santino, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Storekeepers lost your skivvies or turned them from white to gray by washing them with the colors?
—Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skivvies
Noun
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Between 2009 and 2019, his assistants and housekeepers seem to have essentially been running the equivalent of an Airbnb operation at about 15 different apartments in the building.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
13 Feb. 2026
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Professional housekeepers are all about working smarter, not harder.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
2 Feb. 2026
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In Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, a young white woman teams up with two Black maids to document the realities of domestic work in segregated households.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Skivvies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skivvies. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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