skivvy

Example Sentences

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"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

Central Park simmered in the noonday heat as Conductor Leonard Bernstein stripped to his skivvy shirt and led the New York Philharmonic through an alfresco rehearsal.

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