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Meanings of navvy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "drudge"
Examples for "drudge"
1
Many consider it drudge work beneath ladies & gentlemen of their stature.
2
The drudge had probably been affianced oftener than any woman in Bursley.
3
A poem on the miseries of a literary drudge begins thus promisingly:-
4
Today with rural electrification the mountain woman ceases to be a drudge.
5
They think only of the tasks of a drudge or a char-boy.
1
The peon girls consider it an honor to be ridden off with.
2
The peon also received internal injuries, but managed to reach the shore.
3
How they mean to dispose of them the peon does not know.
4
A month later my gang came roaring back from the peon camp.
5
Piute was eating his supper, and the peon had just come in.
1
I tell you what, it is the life of a galley slave.
2
A galley slave, for instance, has the privilege of stealing with impunity.
3
With brutal insult, they chained him to the oar as a galley slave.
4
I wasn't planning to be turned into a galley slave during hot weather.
5
Is it to toil like a galley slave and never have any amusements?
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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