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navvy Noun pl -vies Brit & Austral informal a labourer on a building site or road [from navigator builder of a navigation (in the sense: canal)]
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 Translations navvy [ˈnævɪ] n (BRIT) → peón m caminero navvy [ˈnævɪ] n (Brit) → terrassier m navvy [ˈnævɪ] (Brit) n → Straßenarbeiter m navvy [ˈnævɪ] n → manovale m |
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Equally right or wrong is he who says that Napoleon went to Moscow because he wanted to, and perished because Alexander desired his destruction, and he who says that an undermined hill weighing a million tons fell because the last navvy struck it for the last time with his mattock. He stood there, in Norfolk jacket, pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy. Then his round eyes rolled to the large white lettering on the window above his head, and then strayed to the next table, at which sat only a navvy with beer and cheese, and a young girl with red hair and a glass of milk. |
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navvy - a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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