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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈdɪɡɚ/ [General-American], /ˈdɪɡə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: EN-AU ck1 digger.ogg [Australia] Forms: diggers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ) 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. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|dyggar}} Middle English dyggar, {{af|en|dig|-er|id2=agent noun}} dig + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} digger (plural diggers)
  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches. Synonyms: excavator
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-gOq1TDrL
  2. A tool for digging. Translations (tool for digging): excavadora [feminine] (Catalan), fosilo (Esperanto), kopp (Estonian), labidas (Estonian), kühvel (Estonian), kaevur (Estonian), kaivuri (Finnish), Grabwerkzeug [neuter] (German), иско́пувач (iskópuvač) [masculine] (Macedonian)
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-KIv9UCbE Disambiguation of 'tool for digging': 3 81 4 5 3 0 1 4
  3. (slang) A spade (playing card). Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-JOQu21hK
  4. One who digs. Translations (one who digs): σκαφεύς (skapheús) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), حَفَّار (ḥaffār) [masculine] (Arabic), капа́льнік (kapálʹnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), земляко́п (zjemljakóp) [masculine] (Belarusian), граба́р (hrabár) [masculine] (Belarusian), копа́ч (kopáč) [masculine] (Bulgarian), excavador [masculine] (Catalan), kopáč [masculine] (Czech), graver [common-gender] (Danish), graver [masculine] (Dutch), kaevaja (Estonian), kaivaja (Finnish), excavateur [masculine] (French), Gräber [masculine] (German), Gräberin [feminine] (German), εκσκαφέας (ekskaféas) [masculine] (Greek), umusimbi class 1 (Ikizu), omusimbi class 1 (Kabwa), ко́пач (kópač) (Macedonian), penggali (Malay), pengorek (Malay), खोदणारा (khodṇārā) [masculine] (Marathi), खोदणारी (khodṇārī) [feminine] (Marathi), gravere (Middle English), delvere (Middle English), graver [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), delfere [masculine] (Old English), kopacz [masculine] (Polish), săpător [masculine] (Romanian), копа́тель (kopátelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), землеко́п (zemlekóp) [masculine] (Russian), копа́льщик (kopálʹščik) [masculine] (Russian), граба́рь (grabárʹ) [dated, dialectal, masculine] (Russian), гра́барь (grábarʹ) [dated, dialectal, masculine] (Russian), ко̀па̄ч [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kòpāč [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kopáč [masculine] (Slovak), kopač [masculine] (Slovene), grävare [common-gender] (Swedish), kazıcı (Turkish), копа́ч (kopáč) [masculine] (Ukrainian), землеко́п (zemlekóp) [masculine] (Ukrainian), граба́р (hrabár) [masculine] (Ukrainian), гра́бар (hrábar) [masculine] (Ukrainian), копа́льник (kopálʹnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), גרעבער (greber) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-9jpR85t0 Disambiguation of 'one who digs': 5 3 1 65 20 0 1 4
  5. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold. Tags: Australia, obsolete
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-IiMGlviz Categories (other): Australian English, Mining Disambiguation of Mining: 7 9 11 9 35 3 5 21
  6. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier. Tags: Australia, informal
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun--lp-So37 Categories (other): Australian English
  7. (Australia, dated, by extension) a friendly term of address, especially to a man. Tags: Australia, broadly, dated
    Sense id: en-digger-en-noun-F8yvXmKP Categories (other): Australian English
  8. (US, offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang, dated) A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians. Tags: US, dated, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, vulgar
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Noun [Yola]

IPA: /ˈdɪɡər/
Etymology: From Middle English dyggar. Etymology templates: {{inh|yol|enm|dyggar}} Middle English dyggar Head templates: {{head|yol|noun}} digger
  1. (figurative) duck Tags: figuratively Synonyms: dig, duucks
    Sense id: en-digger-yol-noun-LSNw2yRH Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Yola entries with incorrect language header, Poultry

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "one who digs",
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          "word": "excavateur"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "one who digs",
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          "word": "Gräber"
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          "roman": "ekskaféas",
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          "roman": "skapheús",
          "sense": "one who digs",
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          "sense": "one who digs",
          "word": "umusimbi class 1"
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          "sense": "one who digs",
          "word": "omusimbi class 1"
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          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
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          "roman": "kópač",
          "sense": "one who digs",
          "word": "ко́пач"
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "lang_code": "ms",
          "sense": "one who digs",
          "word": "penggali"
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "lang_code": "ms",
          "sense": "one who digs",
          "word": "pengorek"
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
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          "roman": "khodṇārā",
          "sense": "one who digs",
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          "word": "खोदणारा"
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          "code": "mr",
          "lang": "Marathi",
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          "roman": "khodṇārī",
          "sense": "one who digs",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "खोदणारी"
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      "word": "digger bee"
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      "word": "diggeress"
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      "word": "digger gold"
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      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grävare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "word": "kazıcı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "kopáč",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "копа́ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "zemlekóp",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "землеко́п"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "hrabár",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "граба́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "hrábar",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра́бар"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "kopálʹnyk",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "копа́льник"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "lang_code": "yi",
      "roman": "greber",
      "sense": "one who digs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "גרעבער"
    }
  ],
  "word": "digger"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "dyggar"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English dyggar",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English dyggar.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yol",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "digger",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Yola",
  "lang_code": "yol",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Yola entries with incorrect language header",
        "Yola lemmas",
        "Yola nouns",
        "Yola terms derived from Middle English",
        "Yola terms inherited from Middle English",
        "yol:Poultry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "duck"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "duck",
          "duck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) duck"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dig"
        },
        {
          "word": "duucks"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈdɪɡər/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "digger"
}

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{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Ikizu: 'umusimbi class 1', originally 'umusimbi class 1'",
  "path": [
    "digger"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "digger",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Kabwa: 'omusimbi class 1', originally 'omusimbi class 1'",
  "path": [
    "digger"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "digger",
  "trace": ""
}

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