Navvy

Definitions and meanings of "Navvy"

What do we mean by navvy?

A laborer, especially one employed in construction or excavation projects. noun

Same as navigation, 4. noun

Same as navigator, 2. noun

A common laborer engaged in such work as the making of canals or railways. noun

A power-machine for excavating earth. noun

Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc. noun

A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad noun

A laborer who is obliged to do menial work noun

A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Navvy

The word "navvy" in example sentences

The navvy was a fine specimen of humanity, with a complexion tanned a dusky coffee colour. ❋ Ian Hay (1914)

"Sanitary Tom" (as the boys called the navvy who was his stout ally), had been at work laying bare the subterranean geography of our premises and making all right. ❋ John Huntley Skrine (1885)

It was in the formation of this, the true beginning of railways, that the British "navvy" was called into being. ❋ Unknown (1859)

He can doff them and work like a 'navvy' when he sees reason. ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

"navvy," had just disposed of a supply of rugs and was wending his way homeward at the same time. ❋ Dama Margaret Smith (1932)

He felt weak and sore, and the pain of his smashed knuckles warned him that, even if he could find a job at navvy work, it would be a week before he could grip a pick handle or a shovel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh, I sleep like a baby, eat like a navvy, and in years have not enjoyed such physical well-being. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a building where the homeless, bedless, penniless man, if he be lucky, may CASUALLY rest his weary bones, and then work like a navvy next day to pay for it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He stood there, in Norfolk jacket, pigskin puttees, and all the rest of the fashionable get-up out of a bandbox, sneering at me covered with filth and grease to the eyebrows and looking like a navvy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and his broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He had done a few days 'navvy work when he could get it, and he had run around the Domain in the early mornings to get his legs in shape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was in the old Fulham Hospital Casualty Dept one night when an ambulance brought in a drunken Irish navvy (honest he was!) who had the top, front, left part of his head smashed to a pulp. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Now he was good for nothing but "navvy [menial labor] work," the last of the old guard, and Sandel, over from New Zealand was strong, handsome, blonde, deep-chested, heavy-thewed, Youth incarnate. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From a seat along the wall beneath a framed Ontario plantation diorama, complete with hunched Negroes, a lowly chinless navvy perked up and said: A dollar on Pisk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Its more famous songs appear to have reached Australia very quickly, and one in particular seems to have caught the fancy of the railway navvy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But with manual URI changing and the other method I use – going out to the top and finding the neighboring post and clicking the comments link for that – requires a bit of navvy savvy on part of end user to find interesting conversation in your comments. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I expect he is a navvy from over at — [the rest is inaudible]. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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