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<snip> ...I doubt if [skive] has any close relevance to the usage of 'skivvy' (there may certainly be etymological links) as 'skiving' was something 'skivvies' didn't get chance to do. <snip> That wouldn't stop them being _accused_ of skiving. There's a curious parallelism between 'slave'/'skive' and 'slavvy'/'skivvy', BTW. And Partridge (HS) mentions a 'skivey'. CW