skeevyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈskiːvi/
• 韻: -iːvi

形容詞

skeevy (comparative skeevier, superlative skeeviest)

1. (slang) Disgusting or distasteful.
   • 1970, Carol Evan, Glad and Sorry Seasons, page 3:

     Carefully holding onto every dirty, skeevy piece of information he collected, he used it in his own best interests to ferret his way into a Vice Presidency

   • 1980, Jerry Chase, Cinderella Wore Combat Boots‎, page 8:

     GODZELLA. (After Cinderella has gone.) Mama, can we get a new stepsister? Cinderella is so icky and skeevy.

   • 2012, Kazerad, Katia: Gather information, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), November 09 2012

     She’s already running the whole place on her own. Well, her and that skeevy priest-boy.

   • 2013, Jessica Hagedorn, Manila Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 183:

     He was huddled in the doorway of this skeevy noodle joint in Binondo, the kind of skeevy joint in a skeevy alley where you wouldn't expect to see a guy like Paco. Or maybe you would.

   • 2017, Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 232:

     The idea of hanging out with a skeevy poker player and all of his skeevy friends was not my idea of a good time. But I didn't want Lottie to go alone, either. I assumed the guy was dangerous.

派生語

• skeeve
• skeeviness

参考

• skeevies

Further reading

• “skeevy adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present