different between skeezy vs skeevy

English

Etymology

US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy +? sleazy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ski?zi/
• Rhymes: -i?zi

Adjective

skeezy (comparative skeezier or more skeezy, superlative skeeziest or most skeezy)

1. (slang) Sleazy.
   • 2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, p. xiv:

     I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.

   • 2005, Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University, p. 93:

     I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls.

   • 2014 Alena Smith, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails, page 192:

     The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:skeezy.

See also

• skeezer

References

• The Routledge dictionary of modern American slang and unconventional English, Tom Dalzell, Eric Partridge, 2008, p. 888

English

Etymology

From Italian schifo (“disgust, nausea”) plus English suffix -y. Compare Italian schifoso (“disgusting, loathsome”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ski?vi/

Adjective

skeevy (comparative skeevier, superlative skeeviest)

1. (slang) Disgusting or distasteful.
   • 2013, Jessica Hagedorn, Manila Noir, Akashic Books (?ISBN), page 183

   • 2017, Jessica Brody, The Chaos of Standing Still, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 232

Derived terms

• skeeve
• skeeviness

See also

• skeevies