slavey
IPA: sɫˈeɪvi
noun
- (colloquial, historical) A male servant.
- (colloquial, historical) A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.
- An Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada
- A language spoken by the Slavey peoples.
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Examples of "slavey" in Sentences
- Ms. Thurman does well as a sort of up scale slavey.
- Slavey dates back to the birth of humanity, here is the source.
- And the first thing she does is to go wake wossname the other slavey.
- The consonant inventories in the dialects of Slavey differ considerably.
- The derisive slang term "slavey" expresses the generally prevalent public contempt.
- He has been instructed to bring soda whenever he hears the word slavey pronounced from above.
- And here to the doorstep came the "slavey," very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen.
- And she never did any work that could possibly be handed over to Dick, and the boy was in very truth the "slavey" they called him, and he rarely had enough to eat.
- It is opened after a longer or shorter interval by the "slavey" -- in the morning, slatternly, her arms concealed beneath her apron; in the afternoon, smart in dirty cap and apron.
- Punch was the champion of the "slavey" -- immortalized in Dickens's "Marchioness" -- even of the much-maligned charwoman; the relentless critic of Jeames, his plush and powder and calves.
- A man forty-eight, his wife forty-five, three boys fourteen to nineteen, a girl sixteen years of age, a married son, twenty-two, with his wife and baby, living in the same house, another baby coming, and a little "slavey" given food and lodging and clothing for doing the work.
- Build, cheapen, render alluring a simpler, more spacious type of house for the clerk, fill it with labour-saving conveniences, and leave no excuse and no spare corners for the "slavey," and the slavey -- and all that she means in mental and moral consequence -- will vanish out of being.
- In those days only very prosperous people had more than such an equipage, and it is to be remarked that every drop of water Parload used had to be carried by an unfortunate servant girl, -- the "slavey," Parload called her -- up from the basement to the top of the house and subsequently down again.
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