单词 | navvying |
释义 | navvyingn. The action or practice of working as a navvy. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1910 Econ. Jrnl. 20 344 The majority are prepared to undertake various kinds of digging and navvying work. 1928 E. W. Bradwin Bunkhouse Man v. 185 The prospector is not going to revert to navvying until compelled by circumstances. 1955 Times 21 June 7/2 Mrs. Sispera had to do 16 hours a day at navvying work and had had a fall from a building. 1989 Guardian 21 Dec. 21/2 Its construction..was probably the greatest of all navvying adventures. 2000 Leicester Mercury (Electronic ed.) 11 July I've got electricians and plasterers working on it, but I've been doing a lot of the navvying and demolition work myself, such as knocking down walls and removing ceilings. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1910 |
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