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"text": "A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.",
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"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342",
"text": "Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.",
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"ref": "2002, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War, page xxiii",
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"ref": "2004, Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape, page 99",
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"word": "digger bee"
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{
"word": "digger pine"
},
{
"word": "Diggers Rest"
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{
"word": "digger wasp"
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"form": "diggers",
"tags": [
"plural"
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"word": "clamdigger"
},
{
"word": "cratedigger"
},
{
"word": "crate-digger"
},
{
"word": "ditchdigger"
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{
"word": "fame digger"
},
{
"word": "golddigger"
},
{
"word": "gold-digger"
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{
"word": "gold digger"
},
{
"word": "gravedigger"
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{
"word": "grave digger"
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{
"word": "gum-digger"
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{
"word": "mini digger"
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{
"word": "mussel digger"
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{
"word": "prat digger"
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{
"glosses": [
"A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches."
],
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{
"word": "excavator"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever, page 143",
"text": "The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A tool for digging."
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{
"categories": [
"English slang"
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"glosses": [
"A spade (playing card)."
],
"links": [
[
"spade",
"spade"
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],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A spade (playing card)."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, Barbara J. Wrede, Civilizing Your Puppy, page 75",
"text": "You′ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger with water from a hose, and that hasn′t worked.[…]This step will discourage 99 percent of the diggers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems, page 130",
"text": "Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"One who digs."
],
"links": [
[
"dig",
"dig"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1853, Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words, volume 21, page 64",
"text": "A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342",
"text": "Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gold miner, one who digs for gold."
],
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"(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English informal terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1998, Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre, page 191",
"text": "Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War, page xxiii",
"text": "For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004, Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape, page 99",
"text": "Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An Australian soldier."
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[
"soldier",
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],
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"(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier."
],
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"Australia",
"informal"
]
},
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"categories": [
"Australian English",
"English dated terms"
],
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"a friendly term of address, especially to a man."
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"Australia",
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"ipa": "/ˈdɪɡɚ/",
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"General-American"
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
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"Australia"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "tool for digging",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "excavadora"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "tool for digging",
"word": "fosilo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "tool for digging",
"word": "kaivuri"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "tool for digging",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Grabwerkzeug"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "iskópuvač",
"sense": "tool for digging",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "be",
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"roman": "kapálʹnik",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "капа́льнік"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zjemljakóp",
"sense": "one who digs",
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"masculine"
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"roman": "hrabár",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "kopáč",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "копа́ч"
},
{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "excavador"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kopáč"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "graver"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "kaivaja"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gräber"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gräberin"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skapheús",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "σκαφεύς"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "kópač",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "ко́пач"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "penggali"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "pengorek"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "gravere"
},
{
"code": "enm",
"lang": "Middle English",
"sense": "one who digs",
"word": "delvere"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "graver"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "delfere"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kopacz"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "săpător"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kopátelʹ",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "копа́тель"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zemlekóp",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "землеко́п"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kopálʹščik",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "копа́льщик"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "grabárʹ",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"dated",
"dialectal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "граба́рь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "grábarʹ",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"dated",
"dialectal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "гра́барь"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kopáč"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kopač"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kopáč",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "копа́ч"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zemlekóp",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "землеко́п"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hrabár",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "граба́р"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "hrábar",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "гра́бар"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "kopálʹnyk",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "копа́льник"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "greber",
"sense": "one who digs",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "גרעבער"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"digger"
],
"word": "digger"
}
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