noun
General Slang
Brickie
· noun · construction
A bricklayer.
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British and Australian site slang for a bricklayer. Hard graft, weather-exposed, paid by the thousand bricks on a good day. Brickies are the backbone of any traditional build and they know it.
“The brickies finished the gable end before lunch.”
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Brickie In A Sentence
The brickies finished the gable end before lunch.
Origin & Usage
British trade slang, diminutive of bricklayer, in use since at least the early 1900s.
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