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 Grammy-winning musician, 32, stripped down to her skivvies for a sexy new campaign with Calvin Klein.
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Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
Or, at the very least, its a good enough life for a handsome twentysomething with a drinking problem and penchant for stripping down to his skivvies more often than not.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 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, 9 Sep. 2025
Or, at the very least, its a good enough life for a handsome twentysomething with a drinking problem and penchant for stripping down to his skivvies more often than not.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 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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The best bit for the housekeepers?—
Mattias Goldmann,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Her mother was a nurse, her aunts and distant cousins all nurses and maids and cleaners scattered everywhere from Jeddah to Singapore to Rome.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Skivvies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skivvies. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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