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navvying

navvying is the present participle and gerund of navvy.

Meaning of navvy

Verb

navvy (third-person singular simple present navvies, present participle navvying, simple past and past participle navvied)

  1. (UK, historical, intransitive) To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
    • But by pretending to believe he's navvied before, I've given him double reason to drive himself hard.1974, Malcolm MacDonald, World From Rough Stones, published 2013, unnumbered page

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Questions about navvying

What is navvying the present participle and gerund of?
Navvying is the present participle and gerund of navvy.

Words near navvying in the dictionary

  1. navvie
  2. navvied
  3. navvies
  4. navving
  5. navvy
  6. navvying
  7. navy
  8. Navy Base
  9. navy bean
  10. navy beans
  11. navy blue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: navvying (page history and authors); navvy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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