navvies

Variant of navvy

navvy definition

navvy (nav′ē)

noun pl. navvies -·vies

Brit. an unskilled laborer, as on canals, roads, etc.

Etymology: abbrev. of navigator

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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