workfolk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
workfolk (usually uncountable, plural workfolks)
- Collectively, people who perform manual labour.
- Synonym: workforce
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Volume 2, page 118:
- Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her.
References[edit]
- “workfolk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.