digger
Senso (Inglese)
- A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- A tool for digging.
- (slang) A spade (playing card).
- One who digs.
- (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
- (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
- (Australia, broadly, dated) a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
Concetti
soldato australiano
pala meccanica
colui che scava
cavafango
sinonimi
power shovel
dredge boat
one who digs
unskilled labourer
backhoe loader
shovelman
ground-man
mining machine
Traduzioni
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈdɪɡɚ/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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