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workworn en · ADJ

Etymology

From work + worn.

Meanings

1. worn as a result of manual labour
   • The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled. 2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315:
   • He blames everything on that farmer with glasses and two shirts. The man mocked, whether out of his mouth or in the paced motions of his work-worn hands or through his hairy ears, somewhere out of his body he mocked the furtive wordless hopes that at moments give Harry a sensation of arrival. 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 33–34:

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