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Slavey

noun
1.
A female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work.  Synonym: skivvy.





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"Slavey" Quotes from Famous Books



... him for a minute: then he jumped up and exclaimed, "You need a drink, old man. Let's hurry up that slavey." ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston
... strangeness in the room, And Something white and wavy Was standing near me in the gloom - I took it for the carpet-broom Left by that careless slavey. ...
— Phantasmagoria and Other Poems • Lewis Carroll
... go farther afield, I must note a main difference between the Welsh Power and the English slavey to whom she corresponded in calling and condition. She was so far educated as to know the pseudonym of the friend who came to see us, and to have read his writings in the Welsh Gazette, treating our proposed triumph in his distinction with ...
— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells


Words linked to "Slavey" :   domestic help, United Kingdom, Britain, U.K., Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, skivvy, house servant, domestic, UK


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