Definitions

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  • noun work to be done at night

Etymologies

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From night +‎ work. Compare Dutch nachtwerk, German Nachtwerk.

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Examples

  • Where I am in aus, we dont have snow, but remember a nightwork, parked two cars around a green on golf course and practised our putting under headlightts of cars.

    Inspector Gadget – 3 Million Hits! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • A few weeks later I'd start doing nightwork cleaning oven hoods and being the occasional bodyguard to paranoid drug users and dealers in Boston's Leather District.

    Dart Adams presents 10 Albums I Wish I Never Sold Or Gave Away (2009 Update) Dart Adams 2009

  • A few weeks later I'd start doing nightwork cleaning oven hoods and being the occasional bodyguard to paranoid drug users and dealers in Boston's Leather District.

    Dart Adams presents 8 Albums I Wish I Never Sold Or Gave Away Dart Adams 2008

  • Except if you look at my pictures on flickr or moblog, you'll see that my nightwork pictures aren't much cop.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Helen Keegan 2005

  • Except if you look at my pictures on flickr or moblog, you'll see that my nightwork pictures aren't much cop.

    It's only taken me 11 months... Helen Keegan 2005

  • It was certainly owing to him that nightwork had become extinct here.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • The nightwork this meant was unbearable, infants showing a perverse disinclination to enter the world except under cover of the dark.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • That night Mrs. Wilson came to my door, and said she was sure Joe was at his nightwork again, for she could see from her bedroom window a light reflected on the stable wall, which must be in his room.

    J. Cole Emma Gellibrand

  • It had cost him many hours of nightwork and study, had that license as wireless operator.

    The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney

  • At eleven o'clock, having found nothing in the "Help Wanted" column to fit Tufik's case, Tish called up Charlie Sands and offered Tufik as a reporter, provided he was given no nightwork.

    Tish 1916

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