workworn

English

Etymology

From work +‎ worn.

Adjective

workworn (comparative more workworn, superlative most workworn)

1. worn as a result of manual labour
   • 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', pages 33–34:

     He blames everything on that farmer with glasses and two shirts. The man mocked, whether out of his mouth or in the paced motions of his work-worn hands or through his hairy ears, somewhere out of his body he mocked the furtive wordless hopes that at moments give Harry a sensation of arrival.

   • 2009, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales, page 315:

     The woman held a silver ring out in a workworn hand. It trembled.