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Definition of Navvy
1. Noun. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer
Derivative terms: Drudge
Definition of Navvy
1. n. Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Definition of Navvy
1. Noun. a laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Navvy
1. a manual laborer [n -VIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Navvy
Literary usage of Navvy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"Nevertheless, "navvy" is a contraction of the term " navigator," -which somehow —
probably at first by way of nickname—came to be applied in the early days ..."
2. Our Railways: Their Origin, Development, Incident and Romance by John Pendleton (1896)
"Quicker Mails—Thomas Brassey, the Railway Contractor—The navvy: hi* Nicknames,
... The navvy, though hardly picturesque, with his great, ungainly form, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"chi-^ tools that a navvy won., пат-"lau-hed at, worn-out carts and mti.i^ttd
material of many kinds. Bat iht-rc was routine everywhere— save us. thore was ..."
4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Roast beef, boiled beef, Puddings made of eggs, Up jumps a navvy With a pair of
sausage legs. Farming. In July Some reap rye : In August If one will not the ..."
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