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
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.
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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
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 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
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The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.—
Stephanie Petit,
People.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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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 10 Sep. 2025.
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