digger

Significat (Anglès)

  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
  2. A tool for digging.
  3. (slang) A spade (playing card).
  4. One who digs.
  5. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
  7. (Australia, broadly, dated) a friendly term of address, especially to a man.

Conceptes

excavadora

excavador

Freqüència

C2
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈdɪɡɚ/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

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.

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