Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
navvy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why, don't you know the navvies are the most ignorant young men in London?
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-- This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could.
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On the eve of feast days the streets were thronged with ragged fellows whom the townspeople called "navvies," and of whom they were afraid.
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But set either the House of Lords or the "Saturday Review" contributors upon a hand-to-hand fight against an equal number of "navvies" or
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They began their work in the spring of 1862, taking five thousand English "navvies" to America for the purpose.
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The "navvies," though rough, seem not to have been unmanageable.
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This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could.
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Soon, as the news spread down the alley, rougher faces peered in at window and door, and great "navvies" and dock-labourers put out their hard fists for a rosebud with the shyness and delight of schoolboys.
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A cargo of "navvies" came out to-day in the "Lady Alice Lambton."
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The English are also the best miners, the best tool-makers, the best instrument-makers, the best "navvies," the best ship-builders, the best spinners and weavers.
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