| 词汇 | skivvy |
| 释义 | skivvy noun uk /ˈskɪv.i/ us /ˈskɪv.i/ skivvynoun (SERVANT)[ C ]UKinformal a person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning: 佣人，仆人 He treats me like a skivvy.他把我当成仆人对待。 People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler dogsbody gofer handmaiden housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid retainer serf serfdom servant slave slave trade slaver valet vassal skivvynoun (CLOTHING)[ C ]Australian English a tight-fitting piece of clothing for the top part of the body, made of knitted cotton, with a high, round collar高领针织紧身衫 skivvies[ plural ]USinformal underwear: 内衣（同 underwear） I wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money. Jumpers, shirts & tee-shirts bandeau beach shirt blouse bodysuit boob tube dashiki dress shirt gansey golf shirt guernsey Oxford shirt polo neck polo shirt polo-necked pullover tube top tunic turtleneck turtlenecked twinset skivvy verb[ I ] UKinformaluk /ˈskɪv.i/ us /ˈskɪv.i/ to do the dirty, unpleasant jobs in the house: 干脏活，干粗活，做佣人 skivvy forI'm not going to skivvy for you any more.我不会再给你当佣人了。 Work, working and the workplace act as something all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)idiom assignment bandh be at workidiom grind hoop hotelling housekeeping in the line of dutyidiom induction industry job moonlight slave slog slouch spadework subtask sweat Examples of skivvyskivvy Even the enterprise allowance scheme is described as a skivvy scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are now skivvies if not navvies in the hospitals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The officer's batman and the soldier "skivvy" to the officer's wife ought to be things of the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were kept in a cellar, not properly fed and used as skivvies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not part of the unfortunate skivvy world of third-world nations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The taxpayer would then not have to find the £2 billion now needed for the skivvy youth training and community programme schemes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now the kitchen maid has disappeared from the upper middle class—the lower middle class only had "skivvies"—and the upper middle class is therefore very much hurt. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a skivvy scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The skivvy is coming into her own. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We ended up being his skivvies for the night literally making pizza and frying chicken for him. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Piddock's regularly asked if he'll hang up his actor skivvy to become a full-time screenwriter, but says loves both acting and writing equally so wants to continue to do both. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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