Pronunciations
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/ˈskiːv/
Verb
To disgust or disturb.
Usage- often
- Slang
- Transitive
- with out
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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.
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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.
I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.
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"Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."
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.
To be disgusted or disturbed by.
Usage- Slang
- Transitive
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You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.
Carmela: Sometimes I think you skeeve me. / Tony: I skeeve you? You’re the mother of my children. How could I?
To be or become disgusted.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
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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.
“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.
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.
Noun
A disgusting or loathed person.
Usage- Slang
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He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.