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wharfies

wharfies is the plural of wharfie.

Meaning of wharfie

Noun

wharfie (plural wharfies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) A wharf worker: synonym of dockworker.
    • “It’s a twenty-four-hour stoppage,” he said. “The wharfies went to the Arbitration Court for another pound a week for something or other, and they didn’t get it, so they’ve stopped work for a day to show their displeasure […]”1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann

Questions about wharfies

What is wharfies the plural of?
Wharfies is the plural of wharfie.

Words near wharfies in the dictionary

  1. wharfhead
  2. wharfheads
  3. wharfholder
  4. wharfholders
  5. wharfie
  6. wharfies
  7. wharfing
  8. wharfinger
  9. wharfingers
  10. wharfings
  11. wharfland

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