"Skivvies" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Skivvies" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers

Skivvies

"Skivvies" Meaning

Undergarments, especially a sleeveless undershirt.

"Skivvies" Examples

Usage Examples

Noun

Wearing my favorite colorful skivvies to bed made me feel happy and cozy.
After exercising, I like taking off my sweaty skivvies to put on fresh ones.
Emma forgot to pack her skivvies when she was moving back to college.

Idiom

A friend who is too lazy to get a job is skating by on their family's wealth, while his friends who work are having to wear skivvies.

"Skivvies" Similar Words

Skittishness

Skittle

Skittles

Skittles are a brand of small, chewy candies that are typically fruit-flavored and have a bright, colorful appearance. They are usually small and bean-shaped, with a shiny sugar coating. Skittles have a sweet and slightly tart taste and are widely popular as a snack or dessert in many parts of the world.

Skive

To put in as little effort as possible in order to avoid work or effort. Avoiding responsibility or hard work.

Skived

Skiver

A skiver is a person who shirks or avoids physical work or responsibility, especially for people in a heavy manual labor job. For example: A skiver is always finding excuses to avoid doing the heavy lifting.

Skives

To skive: to evade work or responsibility by leaving early or avoiding tasks, often before the end of the scheduled time.

Skiving

To skive means to avoid doing one's work or duty through shirking or evading it, often by pretending to be ill or indisposed.

Skivvy

Skoda

The word "Skoda" refers to a brand of automobiles, which is actually a division of the Volkswagen Group. Specifically, ŠKODA is a Czech automobile manufacturer based in the Czech Republic. The name "Skoda" is Czech for "hazelnut", but it's named after the founder of the company, Václav Laurin and Václav Klement, who closely emulated the Škoda factory. Alternatively, "Skoda" can also be a verb, meaning to spoil or to ruin something. For example, "I'll skoda this movie, it's going to be boring". However, it's worth noting that in general, the first meaning (the car brand) is the one that is most commonly associated with the name Skoda.

Skolia

Scolia is a rare or obsolete word that can refer to several things, including a genus of wasps, but more commonly, it is an archaic term for a sgolion, usually in the context of medieval music.

Skolion

A Skolion ( Greek: σκολιόν, skolion) is a ancient Greek lyric poem, typically in dactylic hexameter or iambic trimeter, composed to be sung while dancing in a circle, usually after drinking wine.

Skone

Skopelitans

A rare one! Skopelitans refers to people from Skopelos, a Greek island in the Sporades group of islands in the Aegean Sea. In the broader sense, it can also refer to anything related to Skopelos, such as the local culture, language, or customs. As a suffix, -itans is often used in place names to form adjectives, such as in "New Yorkers" or "Londoners". In this case, the suffix is being used to create a noun to describe people from Skopelos.