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Terms vs Navvied - What's the difference?

terms | navvied |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb navvied is

(navvy).

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    navvied

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (navvy)

    • navvy

    English

    Noun

    (navvies)
  • (British) a laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad
  • *1909 , B. Lindsay, Stories of the Universe: Animal Life
  • *:Suppose two lads, fresh from school, go out into the world to earn their living; one becomes a navvy' and one a clerk. In five years' time these two young men will probably be very different in appearance from one another. The ' navvy will have developed his muscles; he will be broad-built, broad-chested, and strong.
  • *1913 , George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
  • *:His proper trade's a navvy ; and he works at it sometimes too—for exercise—and earns good money at it.

    • Related terms

    * navigation * navigator

    Verb

  • (British) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
  • * 1974 , Malcolm MacDonald, World From Rough Stones , 2013, unnumbered page,
    • But by pretending to believe he's navvied before, I've given him double reason to drive himself hard.
  • * 1978 , , The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson , page 104,
    • Before my time of navvying I believe the times were still worse.
  • * 1995 , , Ian Duncan MacKillop, Richard Storer (editors), F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents , 2005, page 89,
    • Three terms to use for George Eliot: the feminine imagination and sensibility; Intellect, the capacity for higher navvying ; Intelligence.