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To: Red Badger

UK informal. a person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning: He treats me like a skivvy

I had to look it up :)


9 posted on 02/03/2020 10:05:07 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: DariusBane

So a skivvy probably had to launder the skivvies.


24 posted on 02/03/2020 10:15:19 AM PST by Boogieman
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