slavey
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See also: Slavey
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slavey (plural slaveys or slavies)
- (colloquial, historical) A male servant.
- (colloquial, historical) A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 81:
- 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 […]
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
- "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."
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