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- Italian · borrowed fromschifoso“disgusting, loathsome”
- Italian · borrowed fromschifare“to disgust, to loathe”
- Italian · borrowed fromschifo“disgust, nausea”
- English todayskeevies
skeevy, from Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”), Italian schifare (“to disgust, to loathe”), and Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
Words from the same roots
Italianschifo all →
skeeveskeevedskeevy
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.