Meanings
comparative skeevier · superlative skeeviest
- slangDisgusting or distasteful.
She’s already running the whole place on her own. Well, her and that skeevy priest-boy.
2012, Kazerad, Katia: Gather information, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), November 09 20124 more examples
Carefully holding onto every dirty, skeevy piece of information he collected, he used it in his own best interests to ferret his way into a Vice Presidency
1970, Carol Evan, Glad and Sorry Seasons, page 3GODZELLA. (After Cinderella has gone.) Mama, can we get a new stepsister? Cinderella is so icky and skeevy.
1980, Jerry Chase, Cinderella Wore Combat Boots, page 8He was huddled in the doorway of this skeevy noodle joint in Binondo, the kind of skeevy joint in a skeevy alley where you wouldn't expect to see a guy like Paco. Or maybe you would.
2013, Jessica Hagedorn, Manila Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 183The idea of hanging out with a skeevy poker player and all of his skeevy friends was not my idea of a good time. But I didn't want Lottie to go alone, either. I assumed the guy was dangerous.
2017, Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 232
Origin
- Italianschifo“disgust, nausea”
- Englishskeevy
From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) plus English suffix -y. Compare Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).
More words from Italian
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with skeevy
All rhymes →Cite this entry
skeevy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skeevy
“skeevy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skeevy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skeevy,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skeevy.
Source: skeevy on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.