navvy

• n. 挖土机；工人
• vt. 挖掘
• vi. 做挖土工

来自navigator的口语，用来讥笑挖运河或修铁路的人。

navvy (n.)

"laborer on a canal or railroad," 1832, colloquial shortening of navigator (q.v.) in its sense of "one who digs navigation canals."

1. His proper tradeis a navvy.

他本来是个挖土的苦力.

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