| 单词 | brickie's labourer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrickie's labourer brickie's labourer n. a person who works as an assistant to a brickmaker or (now more frequently) bricklayer. ΚΠ 1898 Tasmanian Democrat 6 May 1/8 [Seamen] are liable to be called on to hump cargo all day, while brickies' laborers stroll past in their best togs. 1963 A. Sillitoe in London Mag. Sept. 23 ‘You're a brickie, then?’ ‘Brickie's labourer... I mek good money, though.’ 2003 A. Gray Ends of our Tethers 67 I went straight into the family business and learned it from the bottom up, working as a brickie's labourer for a couple of months. < as lemmas |
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