All workhorse synonyms

noun workhorse

• rock — rock the boat, Informal. to disrupt the smooth functioning or routine of something: Don't rock the boat by demanding special treatment from management.
• mainstay — Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
• pillar — an upright shaft or structure, of stone, brick, or other material, relatively slender in proportion to its height, and of any shape in section, used as a building support, or standing alone, as for a monument: Gothic pillars; a pillar to commemorate Columbus.
• doer — a person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency.
• toiler — hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
• slogger — to hit hard, as in boxing or cricket; slug.
• slave — a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
• factotum — a person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house.
• grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
• labourer — Standard spelling of laborer.
• laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
• menial — lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work.
• peon — a messenger, attendant, or orderly.
• plodder — to walk heavily or move laboriously; trudge: to plod under the weight of a burden.
• servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
• workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
• worker — a person or thing that works.
• ball of fire — a very lively person
• beaver — A beaver is a furry animal with a big flat tail and large teeth. Beavers use their teeth to cut wood and build dams in rivers.
• busy bee — a person who is industrious or has many things to do
• dynamo — A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator.
• fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
• go-getter — an enterprising, aggressive person.
• hot shot — incandescent shot fired to set enemy ships or buildings on fire.
• live wire — an energetic, keenly alert person.
• pistol — a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
• self-starter — starter (def 3).
• sharpy — sharpie.
• spark plug — a device designed to fit in each cylinder of a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and to produce the electric spark for igniting the mixture of gasoline and air.
• drudge — a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
• hireling — a person who works only for pay, especially in a menial or boring job, with little or no concern for the value of the work.
• lackey — A servant, esp. a liveried footman or manservant.
• pro — in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.
• captive — A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed.
• serf — a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.
• victim — a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an automobile accident.
• chattel — Chattels are things that belong to you.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• retainer — the act of retaining in one's service.
• skivvy — Also called skivvy shirt. a man's cotton T-shirt.
• thrall — a person who is in bondage; slave.
• vassal — (in the feudal system) a person granted the use of land, in return for rendering homage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivalent to a lord or other superior; feudal tenant.
• bondservant — a serf or slave
• subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
• eager beaver — a person who is excessively diligent or overly zealous.
• hustler — an enterprising person determined to succeed; go-getter.