skivvy

The servant is a servant, a "slavey," a "skivvy," a "Mary Jane."

She that was waiting on you, she's got you to skivvy for her now!

"I ain't no skivvy," he protests all the time, but every little odd job gets done.

Well, the skivvy won't think of that, and Pomeroy will guess that we're trying to communicate with him.