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

The variety is enormous, from tank top through the classic skivvy T shirt to the long-sleeved variety favored by snowbound North Dakota farmers.

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

He was among hundreds of fresh conscripts who stripped to their skivvies and stood in a quickly moving line to be inoculated.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2021

“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