skivvy
/ˈskɪvi/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈskɪvi/
skivvy
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
skiv - vy -> skivvy
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
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- ‘Be realistic: he is never going to tidy up if he has a skivvy to do it for him and give him back his stuff all sorted, clean, tidy and ready to use.’
- ‘In upper-class households there was often a hierarchy of servants ‘below stairs', ranging from the butler to kitchen skivvies.’
- ‘She said the new laws would protect Pakistani teenagers who were brought over to be little more than skivvies to an unknown husband and his family.’
- ‘Are they teachers, managers, social workers or skivvies?’
- ‘They want to be treated with respect, not taken for granted as low paid skivvies.’
- ‘And the choice of placements totally eclipses the old stigma of office typist or work site skivvy.’
- ‘Assistant engineer makes it sound rather grand, they were just called tape ops really, the skivvies of the recording studio.’
- ‘He said: ‘Brian is my skivvy, but I will also help him in his preparations.’’
- ‘What else can I do for anyone, since I seem to be everyone's skivvy this morning?’
- ‘Wear your western shirt open and untucked over a skivvy to draw the eye down and create the illusion of a more sculpted, leaner silhouette.’
- ‘We progress through his experiences as though carried in his pocket, attached to his dogtags, or tucked in his skivvies.’
- ‘Dressing only in skivvies, or tunics, with no armour or protection other than their sword skills, they were outnumbered and outplayed.’
- ‘I had worn a black skivvy with my favourite pair of faded jeans and my white sneakers.’
- ‘But Couples doesn't wear a skivvy shirt under his golf tunic to minimize the subcutaneous fat.’
- ‘Acpec has introduced a combat skivvy as part of a cold weather ensemble to protect the soldier in the field.’
- ‘All his friends attended and he even broke out the red skivvy for the special day.’
- ‘The brown skivvy, open and zipped up, may be worn with dress order 4A DCPU barracks dress and 4B DPCU field dress.’
- ‘This new Ozzie skivvy is designed in a similar style to that used by the Norwegian Army, but of a uniquely Australian material.’
- ‘I had also found a more suitable top, a black body hugging woollen skivvy.’
- ‘These chambers sometimes get so hot that the rappers have stripped down to their skivvies to record.’
Synonyms
BVDs, G-string, be servile, bikini, bondservant, boxer shorts, boxers, bra, briefs, captive, chattel, corset, drawers, drudge, grind, grovel, grub, help, intimate things, jockey shorts, jockeys, laborer, lingerie, loincloth, long johns, menial, muck, panties, peon, plod, retainer, serf, servant, shorts, skivvies, slog, smallclothes, subservient, thrall, toil, toiler, underclothes, underclothing, undergarment, underpants, undershirt, underthings, undies, vassal, victim, work fingers to bone, worker, workhorse
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