Examples of 'navvy' in a sentence

Meaning of "navvy"

navvy (noun): Historically, a laborer employed in the excavation and construction of railways, canals, or other large infrastructure projects
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  • A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
  • To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.

How to use "navvy" in a sentence

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navvy
Just the word of two navvy women.
Never seen a navvy shake hands before a fight.
You look more like a navvy.
Ever wondered what a navvy is or a mudlark.
Please do not hold your cup like a navvy.
My father working like a navvy in the markets.
You have got all the makings of a first class navvy.
Wine red pink navvy blue.
A couple of tattoos and you could pass yourself off as a navvy.
Just the word of two navvy women against that of a gentleman.
I have a theory about navvy boys.
You put that fat navvy to sleep and he did not wake up again.
You should have been a navvy.
The British navvy have a plin.
I am neither family nor navvy.

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You are a navvy now.
It took a year to train a navvy.
I am looking for a navvy who 's been brawling.
Not work like a navvy.
So the navvy is going to be at the school?
Mathieu called me a navvy.
So how long will the navvy folk be living here?
A man with enemies found dead at the edge of a navvy town.
There is a navvy lad in that hut, burnt bad in the explosion.
Just like a navvy.
Being a navvy labourer became a cultural experience unto its own during the 19th century.
My dad was a navvy.
You are a navvy now . Law do not trouble us.
He ai not no navvy.
At Finse there is a navvy museum, and the old navvy road has become a cycle track.
It was a navvy.
The navvy road, Rallarvegen stretches from Myrdal down to Flåm.
Four fatal accidents occurred in the commune which killed a navvy and three workers.
That 's when I let a navvy with a nice smile charm me.
The end of the World by navvy.
I have a theory about navvy boys . Born fighters.
You've got all the makings of a first class navvy.
A navvy drinks beer any time of t'day.
During the construction of a line the railway company built a navvy house at Høybråten.
To be a navvy like your Dad?
Now I have heard about these navvy towns before.
You will never get a man with a mouth like a hairy-arsed navvy.
If it were, we should have to consider every navvy superior to Shakespeare " ( Bertrand Russell ).
Chuckles You are a farm laborer, you are a navvy.
That's when I let a navvy with a nice smile charm me. I'd had a drink.
About us Navvy.
Overnight, the Navvy landed additional reinforcements, and Grant counter-attacked.
It ´ s got a body on it like an Irish navvy.
I would had a drink. That's when I let a navvy with a nice smile charm me.
Do not snarl at a man who can find you work, Navvy.

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