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navvy

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
navvy /ˈnævi/ noun
plural navvies
navvy
/ˈnævi/
noun
plural navvies
Learner's definition of NAVVY
[count] British
: a worker who does very hard physical labor苦力
BNC: 24872 COCA: 0

navvy

noun

nav·​vy ˈna-vē How to pronounce navvy (audio)
plural navvies
chiefly British
: an unskilled laborer

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration from navigator construction worker on a canal

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of navvy was in 1829
BNC: 24872 COCA: 0

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