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navvy |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Navvy \Nav"vy\, n.; pl {Navies}. [Abbreviated fr navigator.] Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence a laborer on other public works as in building railroads, embankments, etc [Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: navvy n : a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {peon}, {galley slave}]
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