SLAVEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slavey mean? 

• SLAVEY (noun)
  The noun SLAVEY has 1 sense:

1. a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work

  Familiarity information: SLAVEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAVEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

skivvy; slavey

Hypernyms ("slavey" is a kind of...):

domestic; domestic help; house servant (a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)