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Meanings of navvy in English
Usage of navvy in English
1
The English navvy was found to be the first workman in the world.
2
You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.
3
The navvy had not stirred, for he had seen nobody enter.
4
They came from the navvy shelter, and Tom could hear plainly every word.
5
They were navvy's boots, and worth in England about 15 shillings.
6
He can doff them and work like a 'navvy' when he sees reason.
7
I expect he is a navvy from over at-(therest is inaudible).
8
The Danish railways brought the British navvy again into comparison with his foreign rivals.
9
Thus there was profit of the affair, though the navvy sank out of sight.
10
A navvy saw the danger, the soldiers with drawn sabers.
11
She felt she had scored quite a victory when the navvy bought a copy.
12
Next day a navvy had returned to the railway works.
13
He worked harder than any navvy, and never felt fatigue.
14
Such is the navvy's life at work and at rest.
15
Describing himself as a navvy, but now an ex-navvy, he is in his 50s.
16
Instead, he let that waterworks chief navvy fellow have her.
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Navvy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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