Definition of "navvies" []

• Plural form of navvy. (noun)

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• "Why, don't you know the navvies are the most ignorant young men in London?"
• "-- This morning I traversed the haunts of the 'navvies' to give tracts to as many as I could."
• "On the eve of feast days the streets were thronged with ragged fellows whom the townspeople called "navvies," and of whom they were afraid."