"slavey" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From slave + -y.",
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      "form": "slaveys",
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      "form": "slavies",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A male servant."
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        "(colloquial, historical) A male servant."
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          "ref": "1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 81:",
          "text": "I told a man on the links yesterday that I'd been a slavey for nine months. I was trying to explain why I was a suffragette […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:",
          "text": "\"Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1887, Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House, Norman L. Munro, published 1887, page 12:",
          "text": "\"The short-haired slavey who had opened the door now put in an appearance as waiter.\"",
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        "A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant."
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        "(colloquial, historical) A female domestic servant; a maid or maidservant."
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    },
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          "text": "\"Doing? Not a Dam' thing. I mean, I was sitting on the bed lighting a cigarette. We'd just come upstairs. Everything was all right; old Peabody in Sydney and the slavey given a night off to go to the pictures.\"",
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        {
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