"workling" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: worklings [plural]
Etymology: From work + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|work|ling}} work + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} workling (plural worklings)
  1. One who is employed or who works; worker.
    Sense id: en-workling-en-noun-sCri95G7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ling

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1857, Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171",
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          "ref": "1901, Transportation-Communication Employees Union, Trans-communicator - Volume 18 - Page 123",
          "text": "Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling, Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down.",
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          "text": "The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today."
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          "ref": "2005, James R. Moulton, Peter the Great and the Russian military campaigns",
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          "ref": "2007, Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time",
          "text": "A bloody nation pushed empathy of a sight-sighing gargoyle smile from up high by lung-lapped seagull soars and swells its raffle high in the sky made for worklings. The lantern well fits the mist of design from the rocky swing of flying whiles.",
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