navvy

Example Sentences

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The effect wasn’t androgynous so much as deeply disconcerting: Priest was, in writer Julie Burchill’s memorable assessment, “built like a hod-carrier” and looked “like a navvy who’d stolen all your makeup”.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2020

They were known as the East London Group, and among their ranks were humble office clerks, a navvy, a window cleaner, a shop assistant, a printer, a basket-weaver and an errand boy.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2017

He is also likened to a navvy, a sweep, a stiff Dutch doll, and an immense feather mattress.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2012

It was said that he ate peas with his knife, that he was illiterate, that he dressed like a navvy, that his wife was "an old frump."

From Time Magazine Archive

He–ah–reminds me so much of a navvy, you know.”

From Into the Primitive by Bennett, Robert Ames