different between labourer vs roughneck

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?.b?.??/

Noun

labourer (plural labourers)

1. Britain standard spelling of laborer.

Anagrams

• rubeolar

French

Etymology

From Middle French labourer, from Old French laborer, borrowed from Latin lab?r?re, present active infinitive of lab?r?. Replaced the Old French arer (“to plough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.bu.?e/

Verb

labourer

1. (transitive) to plough

Conjugation

Derived terms

• labourage
• laboureur

Further reading

• “labourer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French laborer.

Verb

labourer

1. to work (to do work); to labor
2. to manufacture; to make (in a work context)

Descendants

• French: labourer

References

• labourer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

English

Etymology

rough +? neck

Noun

roughneck (plural roughnecks)

1. (colloquial, chiefly US) Someone with rough manners; a rowdy or uncouth person. [from 19th c.]
2. (colloquial, chiefly US) An ironworker; a dirty or low-paid worker, a labourer. [from 20th c.]
3. (colloquial, chiefly US) A labourer on an oil rig. [from 20th c.]
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 286:

     As for the minerals, there has been a good deal of drilling along the big river; trucks and roughnecks no longer garner any notice.

Translations

See also

• roustabout, oil trash
• roughneck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

roughneck (third-person singular simple present roughnecks, present participle roughnecking, simple past and past participle roughnecked)

1. To work as a laborer on an oil rig