The story
- Italian · borrowed fromschifo“disgust, nausea”
- English todayskeeve
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.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.