Definition of Slavey

1. Noun. A female domestic servant who does all kinds of menial work.


Definition of Slavey

1. n. A maidservant.

Definition of Slavey

1. Proper noun. An Athabascan people of western Canada ¹

2. Proper noun. The Slavey language ¹

3. Noun. (colloquial) A maid, maidservant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slavey

1. a female servant [n -EYS] - See also: servant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slavey

slavemasters
slaveowner
slaveowners
slavered
slaverer
slaverers
slaveries
slavering
slaveringly
slavers
slavery
slaves
slaves away
slaves to fashion
slavey
slaveys
slavies
slavikite
slaving
slaving away
slavish
slavishly
slavishness
slavishnesses
slavocracies
slavocracy
slavocrat
slavocrats
slaw

Literary usage of Slavey

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1887)
"Here the slavey has worry as well as work. The lodgers badger and order about the mistress, and she passes it on to her drudge with interest. ..."

2. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"Some of the people on this street are even so well-to-do as to keep a 'slavey. ... and to the door came the ' slavey.' Now, mark you, her position in life ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... 'A Modern Don Quixote' (1893), •The I-ady Slavey' (1893), 'The Gay Parisienne ' (1894), ' Buttercup and Daisy'(1885), •bird Tom Noddy' (1896), ..."

4. Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada by University of Toronto (1902)
"Legends of the Slavey Indians of the Mackenzie River. By Robert Bell. (Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. xiv, pp. 26-29.) Notes on the Designation Atna. ..."

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