"Schivi"

[Gregory {Greg} Downing]

At 10:47 AM 5/12/2000 -0500, GAT wrote:
>I distinctly remember hearing "skeevy" 15+ years ago in New York from
>a young woman, probably late-20s/early 30s, of Jewish background.  I
>also have a vague notion that I have heard it once or twice more, but
>certainly not recently.
>

I heard it a couple of years ago from a fortyish female who has lived all
her life on Staten Island, NY. She used it in conveying her sense of the
sleazy ways in which males sometimes come on to females they believe are
unattached.


Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing at nyu.edu or gd2 at is2.nyu.edu