skeeve

present singular third person skeeves · participle present skeeving · participle past skeeved · past skeeved · alternative skeev

1. oftenslangtransitiveTo disgust or disturb.

   "Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."

   2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 215

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   His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.

   1993, Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love, page 16

   “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.

   2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3

   I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.

   1964, Lou Cameron, The Block Busters, page 186

   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.

   2013, Alyssa Rose Ivy, Soar (The Empire Chronicles #1)

2. slangtransitiveTo be disgusted or disturbed by.

   You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.

   1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner, page 727

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   Carmela: Sometimes I think you skeeve me. / Tony: I skeeve you? You’re the mother of my children. How could I?

   1999, Frank Renzulli, “Pax Soprana”, in The Sopranos, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Tony Soprana, Carmela Soprano (James Gandolfini, Edie Falco)

3. intransitiveslangTo be or become disgusted.

   I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.

   1993, James McCourt, Time Remaining, →ISBN, page 67

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   “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.

   2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3

   Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.

   2009 May 28, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times

plural skeeves · alternative skeev

1. slangA disgusting or loathed person.

   He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.

   1996, Robert DiChiara, Alibis, page 319