skivvy

"I was grafting, picking up boxes, dreaming of being at an Olympic Games. I was doing the rubbish, delivering parts, just a skivvy job really," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2021

You can vacuum pack clothing to save on space, or try the skivvy roll to pack your undies into a neat, sock-encased bundle.

From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2017

She also spent five months on the revived Upstairs, Downstairs last year, playing scene-stealing kitchen skivvy Eunice.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2012

A sailor stripped to the waist burns much worse than one wearing a skivvy shirt.

From Time Magazine Archive

But mostly, she was a maid, a skivvy and, in her hours off, a crammer of simple facts.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

And so the episode ends, with the actors Cosmo Jarvis and Hiroyuki Sanada leaping from the vessel in their skivvies, racing each other to shore.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

They strip him, leaving him shivering in his skivvies before donning him in the institute’s requisite ghostly attire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

Just past midnight on a cold, wet November night in 1904, 13-year-olds William Kiger and Albert Cook, wearing only their skivvies and chained together with ankle manacles, cradled the shackles to stop them clanking.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

The study, conducted by clothing and underwear company Tommy John, surveyed 2,000 people about their skivvies and found that 45 percent have worn the same pair for at least two days.

From Fox News ● Aug. 17, 2019

“Last week a band of antelopes came up to inspect our skivvies flapping in the breeze!”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Whatever skivvying or humble nursing she did, and however well or hard she did it, whatever illumination in tutorial she had relinquished, or lifetime moment on a college lawn, she would never undo the damage.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan