navvy

noun

Definition of navvynext
chiefly British
as in laborer

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  1. laborer
  2. drudge
  3. grub
  4. workman
  5. jobber
  6. workingman
Noun
  • The shipyards needed laborers, and the promise of good jobs drew tens of thousands—many of them Black workers from the South and East—to places like Richmond.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
  • In addition to Mar-a-Lago and the Bedminster golf course, Trump’s Virginia winery and his Palm Beach golf course also sought foreign laborers in 2024.
    Zach Everson, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of laborer
Noun
  • Freed from drudge work, these workers should be empowered to focus on more creative tasks and problem-solving.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Finally, give the drone scouts the drudge work, such as tediously scouring a large area.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
Definition of drudge
Noun
  • Head into town for a little history lesson at Atwood House & Museum, in a 1750s home (open seasonally), harvest your own oysters with Chatham Shellfish Company, and cap off the day with a pint and pub grub at Hog Island Beer Co. Photo by Kosoff/Shutterstock 5.
    Katherine LaGrave, AFAR Media, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike many birds that forage for easy-to-access food, these crows face a challenge: much of their diet consists of hard-to-reach insects and grubs hidden deep inside tree bark or nestled within crevices.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of grub
Noun
  • The workmen who installed them botched the installation.
    Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Work is ongoing — a frenzy of hard hats, fluorescent-jacketed workmen and whirring machinery.
    Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024
Definition of workman
Noun
  • Read full article Now the last-place Sox are the beleaguered jobbers taking a beating at their home park.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Between his backstage segments, and being protected in defeat, Leon Ruff is quietly going from a glorified jobber to a legitimate midcarder.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 May 2021
Definition of jobber
Noun
  • This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.
    Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of workingman
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“Navvy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navvy. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.

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