workling

workling

English

Etymology

From work +‎ -ling.

Noun

workling (plural worklings)

1. One who is employed or who works; worker.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171:

     Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings.

   • 1901, Transportation-Communication Employees Union, Trans-communicator - Volume 18 - Page 123:

     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.

   • 1978, South Africa. Dept. of Education. Adult Education Division, Lantern - Volumes 28-29 - Page 86:

     The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today.

   • 2005, James R. Moulton, Peter the Great and the Russian military campaigns:

     Here are five master-builders besides worklings, all british [sic] subjects; three are masters reckoned as good carpenters as any we have in Great-Britain, and considering that all of them are good subjects, [...]

   • 2007, Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time:

     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.