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Navvy

noun
(pl. navies)
1.
A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.  Synonyms: drudge, galley slave, peon.





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"Navvy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a navvy, who said he had been one of the biggest drunkards in London, having briefly spoken, was followed by one known as 'Jemmy the butcher,' who keeps a stall in the Whitechapel Road. Some one had cruelly ...
— The Authoritative Life of General William Booth • George Scott Railton
... action of the N.L.E.S.R.O. (Navvies' League for the Encouragement of Spectators at Roadmending Operations) in providing deck chairs upon the pavement at a penny an hour is universally appreciated, and it is now no uncommon thing to see a navvy taking a holiday and egging on his sturdy comrades to greater efforts from a seat ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 • Various


Words linked to "Navvy" :   labourer, laborer, jack, manual laborer, galley slave


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