Skivvy
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Skivvy may refer to:
- Undergarments, (primarily in the United States)
- Polo neck or turtle neck shirt, (primarily in the United States and Australia)
- Maid, servant, or person at the bottom of the social order (primarily in Britain)
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Many etymology sites give an earliest date for the use of "skivvy" as a term for a maid of all work in middle class English households as 1902, but the term is used earlier in George and Weedon Grossmiths "Diary of a Nobody" of 1888 and it appears to have been in familiar currency at that date.
