digger

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

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.

Έννοιες

εκσκαφέας

σκάπτης

ανασκαφέας

αυστραλός

βυθοκόρος

Εκσκαφέας

σκάπτων

Συνώνυμα

excavator

miner

navvy

power shovel

shovel

ditcher

backhoe

bagger

spade

prospector

pioneer

scraper

tiller

trencher

dredge boat

one who digs

unskilled labourer

backhoe loader

drag boat

shovelman

ground-man

mining machine

excavator

archaeologist

navvy

bucket

🪣

burrower

dipper

dredge

dredger

extractor

grubber

hoe

investigator

Μεταφράσεις

Bagger

pelleteuse

scavatore

excavadora

excavadora

graafmachine

pala excavadora

excavatrice

pelle mécanique

Gräber

zappatore

حفار

terrassier

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈdɪɡɚ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Κληρονομήθηκε από Μέσα Αγγλικά: dyggar

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.