Slavey

Definition: Slavey

Slavey

Noun

1. (British) a female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work.

Date "slavey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

"Slavey" is a common misspelling or typo for: slave, slaved, slaver, slavery.

Synonym: Slavey

Synonym: skivvy (n). (additional references)

The Slavey (comprised of two groups, North and South Slavey) are a native American group indigenous to the Great Slave Lake region, in Canada's Northwest Territory. They are considered to be a part of the Athabascan or Na-Dene language group, and use a derivation of the Cree syllabary for written language.

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Lady Slavey (1916)

Arabella the Lady Slavey (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Slavey" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Slavey" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "slavey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shërbyese (dogsbody, girl, help, maid, maidservant, nurse, stewardess, wench, woman). (various references)

Arabic		‏خادمة (bedder, charwoman, girl, help, maid, maidservant, servant, servant maid, skivvy, wench, woman). (various references)

Bulgarian		слугиня (maidservant, servant maid, skivvy, wench), момиче за всичко. (various references)

French		boniche. (various references)

German		mädchen (colleen, female, girl, girlie, girls, lass, lassie, maid, maiden, maids, wench, wenches), dienstmädchen (maid, maidservant, servant). (various references)

Greek		δούλα (bondwoman, odalisque, skivvy), δουλικό. (various references)

Hungarian		kis mindenes, fiatal mindenes. (various references)

Pig Latin		aveyslay

Romanian		servitoare (charwoman, daily, girl servant, help, housemaid, lass, maid, maid servant, maid-of-all-works, servant), cenuşãreasã (Cinderella). (various references)

Russian		прислуга за все. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		služavka (ayah, bonne, housemaid, kitchen maid, lady's maid, maid, servant maid). (various references)

Swedish		piga (skivvy, wench). (various references)

Turkish		hizmetçi (charwoman, domestic, domestic help, domestic servant, factotum, handmaid, help, helper, housemaid, maid, maidservant, menial, servant, servant maid, server, servitor, skivvy, waiting girl, waiting maid). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "slavey": slaveys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "slavey" (pronounced 'Slav"ey'): Blickey, Bockey, Chantey, Clayey, Frowey, Gluey, hockey, Pokey, Pomey, Rimey, Rolley, Skiey, Skyey, Veney, Waney, Wheyey. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sylvae.
	Words within the letters "a-e-l-s-v-y"
	-1 letter: laves, leavy, lyase, salve, selva, slave, sylva, vales, valse, veals, vealy.
	-2 letters: ales, aves, ayes, easy, eyas, lase, lave, lavs, lays, leas, leva, levy, leys, lyes, lyse, sale, save, seal, slay, vale, vase, veal, vela, yeas.
	-3 letters: ale, als, ave, aye, ays, els, las, lav, lay, lea, lev, ley, lye, sae, sal, say.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s-v-y"
	+1 letter: saveloy, slavery, slaveys, suavely, valleys.
	+2 letters: aversely, layovers, overlays, savagely, saveloys, vestally, vilayets, virelays.
	+3 letters: abusively, adversely, advisedly, evasively, flyleaves, ladyloves, massively, overplays, passively, severally, severalty, suasively, sylvanite, valkyries.
	+4 letters: abrasively, adhesively, allusively, aversively, invasively, observably, ravenously, shrievalty, sylvanites, viscerally, wavelessly.
	+5 letters: antislavery, assertively, caressively, causatively, cavernously, expansively, impassively, marvelously, observantly, pervasively, serviceably, unadvisedly, universally, veraciously, versatilely, versatility, vestigially, vexatiously, volleyballs.
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