Significado (English)
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- To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (slang) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
- To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- To thrust; to poke.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
Conceptos
cavárselo
cavar para sacar papas
cosechar tubérculos
escabar
ayudar a cavar
sitio arqueológico
picar el interés
Synonyms
scoop out
cut into
archeological site
dig a ditch
make a hole
scratch off
bore a hole
give someone a dig
say something hurtful to someone
dig through
scratch the ground
scratch with nails
bird’s beak
rain channel
winning and opening
mining work
especially a hole
cutting remark
gouge out
hand of bananas
paw the ground
poke into
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/dɪɡ/
Etimología (English)
In summary
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”), alteration of Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, to mound up earth”) (compare Old English dīcere (“digger”)) from dīc, dīċ (“dike, ditch”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz, *dīkiją (“pool, puddle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”). Additionally, Middle English diggen may derive from an unrecorded suffixed variant, *dīcgian. Akin to Danish dige (“to dig, raise a dike”), Swedish dika (“to dig ditches”). Related to Middle French diguer (“to dig”), from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.
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