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slavey

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsleɪvi/Part of speech nounSorted aelsvyStarts with SEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

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

Word origin

From slave + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • 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."

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