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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



... sometimes at 1, nay at 2 and 3—long after Bagshot is gone to his committees, and little Cann to her pupils—a voice issues from the very topmost floor, from a room where there is no bell; a voice of thunder calling out "Slavey! Julia! Julia, my love! Mrs. Ridley!" And this summons not being obeyed, it will not unfrequently happen that a pair of trousers enclosing a pair of boots with iron heels, and known by the name of the celebrated Prussian General who came ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

... "and make a nice little slavey of her into the bargain. No, no, our Trudel is not going ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt



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



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