Definition of "wharfie" [wharfie]

• A wharf labourer or stevedore. (noun)

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• "Swear at the pollies, remembering how they were short changed by the government in WW2 - especially the infamous wharfie strike re ammunitions for the troops."
• "When the forgotten poet and wharfie Ernest Antony wrote Of the Things"
• "The Telephone Tree appears in the wonderful oral history of the wharfies, "Under the Hook", by Tom Hills (a wharfie) and Wendy Lowenstein, originally published in 1982 but now reprinted in an expanded form to cover the"