What does slavey mean?
Slavey means (colloquial, historical) A male servant..
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/ˈsleɪvi/ · noun
(colloquial, historical) A male servant..
I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]
"Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures."
"The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter."
Use slavey when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Slavey means (colloquial, historical) A male servant..
Common synonyms include skivvy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]
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