Workworn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Workworn is an adjective meaning worn as a result of manual labour.
Meaning
worn as a result of manual labour.
Example Sentences
The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include worked, handworked, wrought, handwrought, stonewashed, tooled.
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