navvy – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
navvy
n.
unskilled blue-collar laborer
Navvy
Navvy, a shorter form of
navigator (
UK) or
navigational engineer (
US), is particularly applied to describe the manual
labourers working on major
civil engineering projects and occasionally (in North America) to refer to mechanical shovels and earth moving machinery. The term was coined in the late 18th century in
Great Britain when numerous
canals were being built, which were also sometimes known as "navigations", or "eternal navigations", intended to last forever.
navvy
Noun
1. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
(synonym) drudge, peon, galley slave
(hypernym) laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
Navvy
(n.)
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
navvy
Synonyms and related words:
blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, digger, dredge, dredger, driller, employee, excavator, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, groundhog, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, miner, moiler, office temporary, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, sandhog, sapper, self-employed person, servant, steam shovel, stiff, temporary, toiler, tunneler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
