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workworn

workworn adjective: worn as a result of manual labour.

Adjective

workworn (comparative more workworn, superlative most workworn)

  1. worn as a result of manual labour
    • He blames everything on that farmer with glasses and two shirts. The man mocked, whether out of his mouth or in the paced motions of his work-worn hands or through his hairy ears, somewhere out of his body he mocked the furtive wordless hopes that at moments give Harry a sensation of arrival.1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 33–34
    • The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled.2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315

Forms of workworn

comparativemore workworn
superlativemost workworn

Origin of workworn

From work + worn.

Questions about workworn

What does workworn mean?
Workworn means worn as a result of manual labour.
What part of speech is workworn?
Workworn is an adjective.

Words near workworn in the dictionary

  1. workwoman
  2. workwomanlike
  3. workwomen
  4. workword
  5. workwords
  6. workworn
  7. worky
  8. workyard
  9. workyards
  10. Worlaby
  11. Worland

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