slavey
noun
a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
Slaveys
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pluralof Slavey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
slaveys
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pluralof slavey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
slaveynouna female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
Example Sentences
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The trades have been full of stories about wholesale firings; panicky studios have cut salaries of office slaveys and minor employees.
From Time Magazine Archive
How I pity the long procession of "slaveys" who must have followed each other drearily in that lodging-house under the landlady's jurisdiction.
From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Ve're chaffed and jeered by every cove, by slaveys on a bus; Our werry watermen are now our masters top of us.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
