Synonyms for workfolk
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : wurk-fohk |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɜrkˌfoʊk |
Top 10 synonyms for workfolk
Définition of workfolk
- As in working class : noun common laborers
- To take an instance: There are clothes and shows and so forth, with which I must provide my workfolk.
- Extract from : « The Economist » by Xenophon
- Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.
- Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
- The voices and laughs of the workfolk eating and drinking under the rick came to her as if they were a quarter of a mile off.
- Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
- The other workfolk were by this time all gathered under the rick, where the loose straw formed a comfortable retreat.
- Extract from : « Tess of the d'Urbervilles » by Thomas Hardy
- But the act of the Lancashire workfolk was done in cold blood, and in defiance of every natural impulse.
- Extract from : « A Short History of English Liberalism » by Walter Lyon Blease
- "We workfolk shall have some lordly junketing to-night," said Cainy Ball, casting forth his thoughts in a new direction.
- Extract from : « Far from the Madding Crowd » by Thomas Hardy
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