Advertisement
Advertisement
View synonyms for navvy
navvy
[ nav-ee ]
- an unskilled manual laborer.
navvy
/ ˈnævɪ /
- informal.a labourer on a building site, excavations, etc
Discover More
Word History and Origins
Origin of navvy1
C19: shortened from navigator, builder of a navigation (sense 4)
Discover More
Example Sentences
You have worked him like a navvy, and never given him enough pocket money to keep him in tobacco even.
From Project Gutenberg
It is not the clodhopper, the navvy or the labourer, the careless or the incompetent, who suffer from them.
From Project Gutenberg
Most persons from the navvy to the king feel tired when their days work is finished, but this does not worry them.
From Project Gutenberg
Jim sat on his horse and Navvy appeared riding up to the hollow, leading the saddle horses.
From Project Gutenberg
Jim, who always wanted Navvy to be a dead Indian, looked profoundly sorry.
From Project Gutenberg
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse