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    skiv·vy
    [ˈskivē]
    verb
    skivvying (present participle)
    1. do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.
    Origin
    early 20th century: of unknown origin.
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    verb
    1. do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.
      toil
      labor
      grind
      sweat
      work one's fingers to the bone
      work like a Trojan
      keep one's nose to the grindstone
      grub
      plod
      plow
      sweat blood
      plug away
      graft
      fag
      bullock
      drudge
      travail
      moil
      work day and night
      work like a dog
      exert oneself
      work one's guts out
      work one's socks off
      kill oneself
      knock oneself out
      slog away
      work one's balls/arse/nuts off
      work one's ass/butt off
      Opposite:
      relax
      skive
     
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  1. skivvy verb [ I ] UK informal uk / ˈskɪv.i / us / ˈskɪv.i / to do the dirty, unpleasant jobs in the house: I'm not going to skivvy for you any more.

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    do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy: I was skivvying for that Brixton family

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      SKIVVYING definicja: 1. present participle of skivvy 2. to do the dirty, unpleasant …

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    Is skivvy a derogatory word?
    skivvy is considered derogatory. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised. How common is the noun skivvy? About 0.02 occurrences per million words in modern written English How is the noun skivvy pronounced? Where does the noun skivvy come from?

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    1. U.S. College slang. At the University of Notre Dame: the action of leaving the college campus without permission. Also occasionally in extended use with reference to other disciplinary matters. Also skiving-out. Cf. skive v.3 1, skiver n.3 1. Now disused. Sit still, my heart, sit still! No skiving now. This is jolly skiving weather.

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    What is a skivvy test?
    skivvy for I'm not going to skivvy for you anymore. It is the kind of test where you have to surrender all belongings short of your skivvies and then depend on your memory. By the end, they were down to their sportswear skivvies. I was shocked to my skivvies.

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    When was skivvying first used?
    The earliest known use of the noun skivvying is in the 1960s. OED's earliest evidence for skivvying is from 1968, in Punch. skivvying is formed within English, by derivation.

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    What is a skivvy shirt called?
    1. Also called skiv′vy shirt`. a knit shirt with a small placket at the neck. 2. skivvies, underwear consisting of this or a T-shirt and shorts. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

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