navvy
an unskilled manual laborer.
Origin of navvy
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How to use navvy in a sentence
You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardIt is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.
Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them | Charles David MusgroveMost persons from the navvy to the king feel tired when their days work is finished, but this does not worry them.
Nervous Breakdowns and How to Avoid Them | Charles David MusgroveJim sat on his horse and navvy appeared riding up to the hollow, leading the saddle horses.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane GreyJim, who always wanted navvy to be a dead Indian, looked profoundly sorry.
Tales of lonely trails | Zane Grey
British Dictionary definitions for navvy
/ (ˈnævɪ) /
British informal a labourer on a building site, excavations, etc
Origin of navvy
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