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
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
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 Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
Why those plainclothes men are always courting slaveys.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
