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a navvy is a person obliged to do menial labor
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How do you use navvy in a sentence?
That navvy won't last long on this jobsite.
Diet of a navvy in 1888?
meat and beer
What is the occupation of a navvy?
It is a british labourer employed on a road or building.
What was the navvy who blasted rock called?
the Chinese workers blasted the rock
What are some slang terms for an Irish person?
there is a few slang names for an Irish person a mick or navvy the term navvy comes from the Victorian era round the time of the industrial revolution in England they where Irish labourers dug the canals and tunnles for the railways
Are there any words with double v in them?
savvy divvy divvied divvying divvies civvies skivvies revved revving flivver flivvers navvy navvies
How much does a cubic yard of navvy jack weigh?
varies depending on the moisture content, but can be anywhere from 1.3T per yard to 1.6T per yard
What scrabel words begANS with the letter v?
Civvy divvy navvy savvy valve varve verve vivas vivid volva vulva vavs viva vive vav
What Scrabble words have 2 v?
Savvy, Velvet, Vivid, Evolve, Revive, Survive, Revving, Skivvy, Valves, Navvy, and Vivat are some words containing 2-V's.
What words have two v's together?
bevvies, bevvy, bovver, chivvied, chivvies, chivvy, chivvying, civvies, divvied, divvies, divvy, divvying, luvvie, luvvies, navvies, navvy, revved, revving, savvy, skivvied, skivvies, skivvy, skivvying
What do navvies mean?
The word Navvy is short for navigator the name given to the men who dugand maintained the drainage canals in the Fens of Cambridge and Lincolnshire. In the early days of the railways it was these men who were employed to build them. As railway construction expanded men came from all over the country including Ireland but the name stuck.
2 v words?
5-letter wordscivvy, divvy, navvy, savvy6-letter wordschivvy, revved, skivvy7-letter wordscivvies, divvied, divvies, flivver, navvies, revving, savvied, savvier, savvies8-letter wordschivvied, chivvies, divvying, flivvers, savviest, savvying, skivvied, skivvies9-letter wordschivvying, skivvying26 words found.
