That labours or toils, esp. at unskilled manual labour; = labouring, adj. 1. Now rare.

Of a person: having a manual occupation; working at a trade. In later use: of or relating to manual occupations. Obsolete.

Belonging to or characteristic of people engaged in manual work, esp. regarded as a class, artisanal; vulgar, coarse. Now rare.

Having an apron (frequently in combinations); formerly used for: Of the working class, mechanic.

Usually with hyphen. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the working class.

Of or relating to the proletariat (proletariat, n. 1a); working-class.

Usually with hyphen(s). Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the lower working class.

= proletarian, adj. (in various senses).

= proletarian, adj. 3.

a cap made of cloth; also attributive, esp. in sense ‘of or pertaining to the working class’.

Used allusively to denote a typical street of the sort depicted in Coronation Street. Hence as adj., working-class.

Of working-class origin; = proletarian, adj. 3 (cf. prole, adj.). Also in prolier-than-thou (cf. holier-than-thou at holy, adj. 5).