'Navvy' definitions:
Definition of 'navvy'
(from WordNet)
noun
Definition of 'Navvy'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'navvy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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