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What is Navvies?This is use by making Navvy kaz's son Navvies - meme gifNavvies - videoNavvies - what is it?This word means someone's son or daughter Hey Navvy you are kaz's son right? What does "Navvies" mean?The opposite of tech savvy. A person that is bad with tech (naive). "-Danny, could you please close some programs on your laptop, it's going to die! Navvies - what does it mean?Someone who is good at finding their way around (navvy - navigation; savvy - knowledge, ability) That guy's really navvy savvy. Navvies - meaningUnlike Itsy Bitsy and Teeny Weeny, Navvy Gravvy doesn't refer to just a small size but to a small amount. A navvy gravy is a very small amount, a little tiny bit, a very fine shaving. In common use within the Royal Dockyards where very small adjustments have to be made, by shipwrights and shipfitters, to customise components in order to get them to fit correctly. Thought to date from around the mid-nineteenth century when many tasks in shipbuilding were still carried out by 'eye', although the origins or the words themselves are not entirely clear, it is still in use today where non-standard sized items have to be adjusted to fit. "If we just take a navvy gravvy off that leading edge, it'll fit perfect." Navvies - definition(a) Worker (british) "Hey Bryan, let's play the Chaos Engine. I'll pick the Navvie." Navvies - slangUnskilled workers on a major building project. Derived from large numbers of Irish workers who came to England in the mid-1700's to dig out the navigational canals. It took a few thousand navvies to build the Channel Tunnel. |
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