English Explanatory Dictionary

gumdigger

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Word forms

gumdigger gumdiggers gum-digger

Etymology

From gum + digger.

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