skeeve
/ˈskiːv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian."
- "“Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago."
- "I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke."
- ""Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes.""
- "At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him."
- "You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death."
Etymology
From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) and Italian schifare (“to find disgusting or loathsome; to loathe”), introduced by Italian immigrants to the United States. Also possibly just a Back-formation from skeevy, similarly from Italian.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: schifo, -