digger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɪɡə/    美 /ˈdɪɡɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
    — The cables are placed from 16 in. to 2 ft. down, and to save time and labour use was made of a mechanical digger lent by the Swedish State Railways.
  2. A tool for digging.
    — The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.
  3. A spade (playing card). slang
  4. One who digs.
    — 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.
  5. A gold miner, one who digs for gold. Australia,obsolete
    — 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.
  6. An Australian soldier. Australia,informal
    — Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
  7. a friendly term of address, especially to a man. Australia,broadly,dated
  8. A member of any Native American people in the western United States, especially Native Californians. US,dated,ethnic,offensive,slang
    — White men are not usually hanged for killing Chinamen, but Indians who commit such a crime are strung up with little ceremony. Last week a Digger was hung at Jackson, Amador county, for having last summer murdered some Chinamen at Rancheria.

词形变化

diggers plural

词汇关系

下位词
clamdigger cratedigger crate-digger ditchdigger fame digger golddigger gold-digger gold digger gravedigger grave digger gum-digger mini digger mussel digger prat digger
衍生词
bonedigger clamdiggers digger bee diggeress digger pine Diggers Camp Diggers Rest digger wasp food digger gumdigger oil-digger potato digger welldigger

词源

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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