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wharfie noun a wharf labourer AUSTRALIA, 1911- Each of them had a gun and a needle-sharp wharfie’s loading hook! — Weekend, p. 30, 1 June 1957
- This time it wasn’t the wharfies who’d held up supplies, but our own officers. — Martin Cameron, A Look at the Bright Side, 1988
- But scores of workers–including dockies, wharfies and chippies–regard the Pacific Hotel in Stephen St as a second home. — Glebe and Western Weekly, p. 2, 8 November 1989
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