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workingman

[ wur-king-man ]

noun

plural workingmen.
  1. a man of the working class; a man, whether skilled or unskilled, who earns his living at some manual or industrial work.


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Gender Note

See -man.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of workingman1

First recorded in 1630–40; working + man
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Initially, the group had been to a pub before moving on to Tonyrefail workingman’s club, where witnesses described them as each having bought drinks.

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If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.â€

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While running for the Mississippi governorship in 1975, Charles Finch — better known to his constituents as Cliff — endeavored to establish himself as “the workingman’s candidate.â€

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Have Democrats retreated so far from their workingman roots that their knee-jerk impulse is to dump on a blue-collar guy who highlights “folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat�

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The 50-year-old added his addiction grew as a result of performing in bands at various workingmen's clubs across south Wales.

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