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 Definitions for navvy: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Navvy \Nav"vy\, n.; pl. Navies. [Abbreviated fr. navigator.]
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation;
hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building
railroads, embankments, etc. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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navvy
n : a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge, peon,
galley slave]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "navvy":
blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer,
common laborer, day laborer, digger, dredge, dredger, driller,
employee, excavator, factory worker, flunky, free lance,
free-lancer, full-time worker, groundhog, hand, industrial worker,
jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, miner,
moiler, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker,
sandhog, sapper, self-employed person, servant, steam shovel,
stiff, temporary, toiler, tunneler, wage earner, wage slave,
wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman,
workingwoman, workman
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