Synonyms for navvy

Grammar : Noun

Spell : nav-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnæv i

Définition of navvy

Origin : "laborer on a canal or railroad," 1832, colloquial shortening of navigator (q.v.) in its sense of "one who digs navigation canals."

As in day laborer : noun unskilled worker

Example sentences :

A duke may become a navvy for a joke, but a clerk cannot become a navvy for a joke.
Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton

And I was a navvy before the war, and joined up for a change.
Extract from : « Pushed and the Return Push » by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

They came from the navvy shelter, and Tom could hear plainly every word.
Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various

It is pleasing to remember that a Navvy Battalion followed us!
Extract from : « The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) » by Fred W. Ward

But I had had no part nor lot in the preservation of that navvy's simple patriotism.
Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson

We have navvy for navigator, brandy for brandywine, from Du.
Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley

The navvy was not simply going away, he had the air of a man in flight.
Extract from : « Messengers of Evil » by Pierre Souvestre

He slipped through with a forceful push and caught the navvy by his jacket.
Extract from : « Messengers of Evil » by Pierre Souvestre

"I feel worse than I've ever felt," said the navvy, with suddenness.
Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling

Till then the navvy, whose only desire was justice, had kept his temper nobly.
Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling

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