skivvy, slavey
(noun) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Slavey
An Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada
Synonyms: Awokanak, Deh Cho, Deh Gah Got'ine
A language spoken by the Slavey peoples.
Many of the Slavey people consider this term derogatory, as it originated from their enemies, and derived from slave. There is no specific term for this grouping in Dene (Athabaskan), the individual Slavey groups each have their own terms for each group of people and their neighbours. The language is also divided into North Slavey and South Slavey and not identified as a unit in Dene.
• Alveys, Laveys, Leavys, Leyvas
slavey (plural slaveys or slavies)
(colloquial, historical) A male servant.
(colloquial, historical) A maid, maidservant.
• Alveys, Laveys, Leavys, Leyvas
Source: Wiktionary
Slav"ey, n.
Definition: A maidservant. [Colloq. & Jocose Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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