skivvies

1. 1.

   (used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants

   Broaderunderwear

   trademark · plural

Other forms of skivvies

plural

skivvieses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skivvies

What does skivvies mean?

skivvies means "(used in the plural) men's underwear consisting of cotton undershirt and underpants".

How many syllables are in skivvies?

skivvies has 2 syllables: skiv-vies. The stress falls on "skiv".

Is skivvies a common word?

skivvies is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.