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navvy

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nav·vy  (nv)
n. pl. nav·vies Chiefly British
A laborer, especially one employed in construction or excavation projects.
[Short for navigator, canal laborer (obsolete).]
navvy [ˈnævɪ]
n pl -vies
Brit informal a labourer on a building site, excavations, etc.
[shortened from navigator, builder of a navigation (sense 4)]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.navvynavvy - a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
peon, drudge, galley slave
laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
navvy
noun labourer, worker, ganger, workman, manual worker, hand He spent 18 months doing navvy's work on a building site.
Translations
navvy [ˈnævɪ] N (Brit) → peón m caminero
navvy [ˈnævi] n (British) → terrassier m
navvy
n (Brit) → Bauarbeiter(in) m(f); (on road also) → Straßenarbeiter(in) m(f)
navvy [ˈnævɪ] n (Brit) → sterratore m, manovale m
navvy [ˈnævɪ] n (Brit) → sterratore m, 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.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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.
The Red One by London, Jack View in context
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.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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