workie
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English
Etymology
From work (noun) + -ie (suffix forming colloquial nouns denoting persons associated with the words to which they are affixed).[1] Sense 1 (“intern”) alludes to work experience.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːki/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɜɹki/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: worky
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ki
- Hyphenation: work‧ie
Noun
workie (plural workies) (informal)
- (slang) An intern.
- 2014, Julie Bradford, Fashion Journalism, page 22:
- Other interns are another good source of advice and support. Melody Small, a 20-year-old student from Canterbury who did a two-week editorial placement at Grazia, said: 'Make friends with other workies […]
- (chiefly Scotland) A worker, especially a manual labourer.
- (US politics, historical) Chiefly in the form Workie: a member or supporter of a Working Men's (or Workingmen's) Party, one of a number of political parties established in the United States in the early 19th century to further working class interests.
Alternative forms
References
- ^ Compare “workie, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “workie, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
