workfolk

or work·folks

[ wurk-fohk ]

plural noun

1. people who work for a wage, salary, commission, etc., especially rural or agricultural employees.

workfolk

/ ˈwɜːkˌfəʊk /

plural noun

1. working people, esp labourers on a farm

Word History and Origins

Origin of workfolk¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; work, folk

Example Sentences

Looking out of the open door at the streams of bright and happy girls laughing, singing, dancing, and running, as only healthy youth can do in the midst of these dark days of war, I seemed to see other and brighter days ahead stretching out into the years of the future, when the workfolk would all taste a fuller joy in life.

From Project Gutenberg

We learn, on the unimpeachable testimony of Mrs. Whynniard, the landlady, that Faukes not only paid the last instalment of rent on Sunday, November 3rd, but on the following day, the day immediately preceding the intended explosion, had carpenters and other workfolk in the house "for mending and repairing thereof."

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No saint or philosopher ever betrayed a greater fortitude than these poor and simple workfolk.

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These wasted capital, increased the taxation of the necessaries of life, and, by disturbing foreign trade, made profits speculative, and so made it difficult for the most benevolent manufacturer to establish his business upon the basis of high and steady wages for his workfolk.

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But the act of the Lancashire workfolk was done in cold blood, and in defiance of every natural impulse.

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