English Explanatory Dictionary

digger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
  2. A tool for digging.
  3. A spade (playing card).
  4. One who digs.
  5. A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. An Australian soldier.
  7. a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
  8. A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians.
noun
  1. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
  2. One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
  3. One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
noun
  1. A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɪɡɚ/ /ˈdɪɡə/ EN-AU ck1 digger.ogg

Word forms

digger diggers

Etymology

From Middle English dyggar, equivalent to dig + -er. In the sense of "Australian soldier", attributed to the considerable time that soldiers spent digging trenches during World War I.

Synonyms

excavator Shoshokie Shoshoko

Derived words

bonedigger clamdiggers digger bee diggeress digger pine Diggers Camp Diggers Rest digger wasp food digger gumdigger oil-digger potato digger welldigger
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