workingman
Americannoun
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workingmen
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See -man.
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Origin of workingman
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They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2017
His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2015
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
I want to wave my pound note at the world so they’ll say,There he goes, Frankie McCourt the workingman, with a pound in his pocket.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
By 1842, thousands of workingmen were rallying in Independence Square in Philadelphia to lament “the want of employment among the industrious classes.”
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
Democrats were also popular among farmers, artisans, and urban workingmen who feared that economic change could end their opportunities and independence.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Like many of his peers, Sargent believed that the bodies of workingmen were deformed by their efforts, made asymmetrical and even weak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2016
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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