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workfolk|ˈwɜːkfəʊk|
Also (now rare) -folks.
[f. work n. + folk n. Cf. Du. werkvolk.]
= workpeople, esp. farm labourers.
c1475Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 285 That syche wyrfolk be payd in good moné. 1566Engl. Ch. Furniture (Peacock 1866) 114 One sacringe bell—wch Mr Edmond Haselwood..vsed in his house (as he said) to call worckfolke to dinner. 1572in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 164 Wages by him payd to 214 woorkfolkes. 1578Bk. Chr. Prayers 88 b, We beseech thee (O thou Lord of the haruest) send workfolks into thy haruest. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. l. 327 At the discretion of the gardener,..according as his number of workefolkes is more or lesse. 1612S'hampton Assembly Bks. (1924) III. 40 Theis seargmakers..were..desiered to paie good English money to their worcke folkes. 1702Guide for Constables 30 Clothiers must pay their..workfolks their wages in ready money. 1828Craven Gloss., Wark-folk, labourers. 1849Rock Ch. Fathers II. vii. 411 The lowliest work-folk in the town. 1883T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 255 The regular farmer's labourers—‘workfolk’ as they call themselves. 1891Daily News 26 Aug. 6/4 A slight improvement in the conditions under which farm workfolks live. 1902Athenæum 20 Dec. 831/3 The writer..had..smoked with the workfolk in their public-houses. |