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This nascent subgenre flows directly from Woody Guthrie’s suite of murder ballads, which gave the workingman’s lament an infusion of antihero glamour.—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024 His workingman shtick, borrowed from socialist folk-music sentimentality, is sustained by the showbiz equivalent of the Democrat machine.—Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2024 The people who are sitting in front of Hitler have, for the most part, sunk below the standard of living of a German workingman with a job.—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011 As for some of the others, there is only a slight difference between their income and the wages of a workingman.—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011 See all Example Sentences for workingman
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of workingman was
before the 12th century
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