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slavey
1[ sley-vee ]
noun
British Informal: Older Use.
plural slaveys.
- a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
Slavey
2[ sley-vee ]
noun
plural Slaveys, (especially collectively) Slavey.
- a member of a group of Athabascan-speaking First Nations living in the upper Mackenzie River valley region of the Northwest Territories and in parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory.
Slavey
1/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- a member of a Dene Native Canadian people of northern Canada
slavey
2/ ˈɪɪ /
noun
- informal.a female general servant
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slavey2
First recorded in 1785–80; from French esclave, literally, “slave,” a loan translation of Cree ɲ “captive, slave” (the Cree would make raids on and enslave this Athabascan people); the two-syllable pronunciation is a local variant derived from a spelling with the French suffix -ais
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slavey1
from Athapascan
Origin of slavey2
C19: from slave + -y ²
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“I thought I was among free men, not slaveys.”
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Well, don’t blame me if you find yourself still a slavey five years hence.”
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They were the usual words that the slavey used when she dragged upstairs of an evening with his tea-things.
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Wasp seemed to know that Annie was his own particular “slavey,” and insisted on her being constantly within hail of him.
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At present her conversation was restricted to the man who bought her pictures, and the hard-worked, lodging-house slavey on the not too numerous occasions when she brought up the coals.
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