skivvy
Thin base layer
A skivvy is an undershirt, especially the close-fitting kind worn by sailors—usually appearing in the plural: He stripped down to his skivvies.
The term extends to any underwear.
In British English, a skivvy is a female domestic servant who performs menial tasks, and to skivvy is to do such work.
Household cleaning worker
- housemaidLive-in cleaning employee
- scullionKitchen's lowest servant
- domesticOf the home
- drudgeOne doing hard, dull labor
charwoman · housekeeper · tweeny · menial · factotum · charlady · scrubber · dogsbody
maid
Household cleaning worker
drudge · charwoman · housekeeper · tweeny · menial · factotum · charlady · scrubber · dogsbody
undershirt
Lightweight inner torso garment
longjohns · singlet · undergarment · briefs · knickers · drawers · combinations · woolens · flannel · cotton
toil
Strenuous, prolonged effort
scrubbing · cleaning · mopping · fetching · errands · labor · donkeywork · housework · drudgery
- lackeyslackey, minion, flunky, underling, gofer
- British slangblag, bloke, bodge, blagger, bobby
- domestic servantsmaid, housemaid, chambermaid, parlormaid, parlor maid