workfolk

Collectively, people who perform manual labour.

Noun

  1. Collectively, people who perform manual labour.
    • Tess waited outside the door of the farmhouse till the group of workfolk had received their wages, and then Marian introduced her. - 1892, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLII, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Volume 2, page 118:

    Synonyms: workforce

Origin

From work + folk.

Forms

workfolks