skivvie

English

Noun

skivvie (plural skivvies)

1. Alternative form of skivvy.
   • 1946, Barbara E. Bristol, “The Women of P. I.”, in P. I., Third Anniversary MCWR, 1943-1946, Walker, Evans & Cogswell Co.:

     Now that peace is here once more, and the Corps is returning to its prewar proportions, our girls are being replaced by men and discharged to civilian life, where they will no longer hear the song of the DI’s cadence, the clash of GI trays, the cry of LIGHTS OUT and HIT THE DECK, KNOCK IT OFF and FALL IN, where there will no longer be the smell of shoepolish and the skivvie-clad confusion of GI parties.

   • 1948 January, John L. Zimmerman, “Top Goes Out On Thirty”, in The Marine Corps Gazette, volume 32, number 1, page 19, column 2:

     Top sits before the window every afternoon with a case of beer beside him, clad comfortably in a skivvie shirt and a pair of khaki trousers, with his game leg on a chair before him.

   • 2014, Atticus Lish, Preparation for the Next Life, New York, N.Y.: Tyrant Books, →ISBN, page 39:

     Beneath his clothes, his skivvie shirt was stinking and sweat-soaked. He peeled the skivvie off, revealing his upper body, and wrung it out in the sink.