workingman
Americannoun
plural
workingmenGender
See -man.
Etymology
Origin of workingman
Example Sentences
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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
He brought this picture all the way from America where he found it thrown out by someone who had no time for the workingman.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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