slavey

plural slaveys · plural slavies

1. colloquialhistoricalA male servant.
2. colloquialhistoricalA female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant.

   "The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter."

   1887, Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House, Norman L. Munro, published 1887, page 12

   2 more examples

   I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]

   1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 81

   "Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures."

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82

plural Slaveys · alternative Slave · alternative Slavé

1. A member of an Athabascan First Nations people indigenous to the region near the Great Slave Lake in western Canada

   Synonyms: Awokanak, Deh Cho, Deh Gah Got'ine

alternative Slave · alternative Slavé

1. A language spoken by the Slavey peoples.

   In the Northwest Territories, the languages with official status are English, French, Dëne Sųłıné (Chipewyan), Nēhiyawēwin (Cree), Dene Kǝdǝ́ (Northern Slavey), Dene Zhatıé (Southern Slavey), Dinjii Zhu’ Ginjik (Gwich’in), Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun and Tłįcho.

   2025, Marie-Ève Hudon, Language regimes in the Provinces and the Territories, Ottawa, Canada: Library of Parliament, page 30