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skivvy

noun

ˈski-vē

Definition of skivvy

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as in housekeeper

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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But Sunchine’s housekeepers spent their shifts at The Club cleaning hundreds of Airbnb units rather than common areas, according to homeowners.

— Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
Saar took a smiling mammy figure and replaced the pencil a Black housekeeper would have used for her client’s grocery list with a rifle and grenade.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

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When the elevator opened on Sonya’s floor, a uniformed maid stood waiting at the apartment’s front door.

— Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
The person who started that rumor is the present-day, extremely status-conscious Queen Dowager (Our Unwritten Seoul’s Jang Young-nam), who is furious at the idea her husband would make a lowly maid a concubine.

— Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026

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