wharfie

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wharfie

noun wharfies

Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal A wharf worker: synonym of dockworker. “It’s a twenty-four-hour stoppage,” he said. “The wharfies went to the Arbitration Court for another pound a week for something or other, and they didn’t get it, so they’ve stopped work for a day to show their displeasure […]”

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@misc{wharfie_2026,
  title = {wharfie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wharfie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}