skivvy /ˈskɪvi/noun 3verb 1forms 3 noun3 •(US, Australia) A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar.Then dark blood squirts from a little hole in Sergeant Gerheim's chest. The red blood blossoms into his white skivvy shirt like a beautiful flower. — 1979 •(old-fashioned) A female domestic servant, especially one employed for menial work.And then Somerset looked at the boys′ skivvy, and saw a well set up young woman with a red round face, an angry face just then but underneath the anger a pleasant one. — 1974 •(slang) A prostitute. verb1 •To perform menial work; to do chores, like a servant.We went out by turns, or sent out the apprentices who skivvied for us, to fetch in roast pork […] — 1930 formsskivvied · skivvying · skivvies
