[sley-vee] 
| a female servant, esp. a maid of all work in a boardinghouse. |
[sleyv] 
) Slave. | a member of a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indians living in the upper Mackenzie River valley region of the Northwest Territories and in parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory. |
| slav·ey (slā'vē) n. pl. slav·eys A household servant, especially an overworked one. |