skivvy

noun (plural skivvies)

• 1British informal a female domestic servant who performs menial tasks: I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy
• a person doing work that is poorly paid and considered menial: I’m really the office skivvy

• 2 (also skivvy shirt) US & Australian a lightweight high-necked long-sleeved garment.
• a T-shirt or short-sleeved vest.

• 3 (skivvies) North American underwear consisting of a vest and underpants.

  [originally a US navy term]

verb (skivvies, skivvying, skivvied)

• do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy: I was skivvying for that Brixton family