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DIGGERS

Definition: DIGGERS

DIGGERS

Noun plural

1. A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DIGGERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)


Specialty Definitions: DIGGERS

DomainDefinitions

Slang in 1811

DIGGERS. Spurs. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DIGGERS

Specialty definitions using "DIGGERS": DIGGERSmaintenance engineer, oil field, MECHANICAL-MAINTENANCE SUPERVISORshop supervisor, SUPERVISOR, DIVERSIFIED CROPS. (references)

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Modern Usage: DIGGERS

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Movie/TV Titles

The Gold Diggers (1952)

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Divot Diggers (1936)

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Diggers in Blighty (1933)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: DIGGERS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Big Noisy Trucks and Diggers (reference)

  • Big Trucks and Diggers in 3-D (reference)

  • Diggers and Dump Trucks (Eye Openers) (reference)

  • Diggers at the Well: Proceedings of a Third International Symposium on the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Ben Sira (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, V. 36) (reference)

  • Fossiling in Florida: A Guide for Diggers and Divers (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: DIGGERS

Photos:
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Illustrations:
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Photo Album: DIGGERS

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The biggest show on earth--Gold diggers of 1933. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIGGERS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The most commonly used types of agricultural machinery, implements and parts are medium-size tractors, hay bailers, grain drills, peanut diggers, ploughs, rakes, reaping vehicles, fodder machines, ditchers and cane harvesters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DIGGERS

"DIGGERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 84.72% of the time. "DIGGERS" is used about 72 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)84.72%6143,149
Lexical Verb (-s form)9.72%7133,076
Noun (proper)5.56%4175,879
                    Total100.00%72N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: DIGGERS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DIGGERS": bait-diggers, gold-diggers, grave-diggers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DIGGERS

Language Translations for "DIGGERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

挖掘者 (Digger). (various references)

   

Czech

  

dùl (mine, pit, trough). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kartoffeloptagere aflaegger de optagne kartofler ved siden af traktorsporet (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voorradrooiers leggen de uitgeworpen aardappels in rijen naast het trekkerspoor (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks). (various references)

   

French

  

les arracheuses simples déposent les pommes de terre arrachées côté des traces du tracteur (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks). (various references)

   

German

  

Gräber (burrower, digger, graves, sepulchers, tombs). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

οι απλοί πατατοεξαγωγείς τοποθετούν τις εκριζωμένες πατάτες δίπλα στα ίχνη του ελκυστήρα (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

diggerek mozgalma. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tombe (graves). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

갱부 (Digger, Pitman, Pitmen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iggersday

   

Portuguese

  

os arrancadores simples colocam as batatas arrancadas ao lado dos rastos do tractor, (potato diggers delines the lifted potatoes into rows to the side of the trailer's tracks). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

земляные осы. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DIGGERS

Derivations

Words ending with "DIGGERS": ditchdiggers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DIGGERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Biggers, dagers, diger, Digfer, diggery, Digges, diggler, dilger, Doggert, Doggets, iggers, tiggers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DIGGERS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DIGGERS" (pronounced di"gerz)
4-i" g er zchiggers, niggers, rigors, triggers.
3-g er zAngers, augers, augurs, beggars, bootleggers, braggers, buggers, burgers, carpetbaggers, catalogers, cheeseburgers, Cougars, daggers, Eggers, fingers, forefingers, gangbangers, hamburgers, jaegers, Jaggers, joggers, leaguers, lingers, loggers, lugers, mongers, muggers, sandbaggers, sluggers, staggers, sugars, tigers, vinegars, Youngers.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DIGGERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-r-s"

-1 letter: digger, dirges, grides, ridges, rigged.

-2 letters: dirge, dregs, dries, girds, gride, grids, grigs, resid, rides, ridge, sired.

-3 letters: dies, digs, dire, dreg, eggs, egis, ergs, geds, gids, gied, gies, gigs, gird, grid, grig, ides, ired, ires, reds, regs, reis, ride, rids, rigs, rise, side, sire.

-4 letters: die, dig, dis, eds, egg, erg, ers, ged.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-i-r-s"
 

+1 letter: disgorge, dreggish, druggies, sprigged.

 

+2 letters: disgorged, disgorges, doggeries, draggiest, dredgings, dreggiest, druggiest, sniggered.

 

+3 letters: aggrandise, degreasing, desugaring, digressing, gadgetries, ridgelings, ruggedizes.

 

+4 letters: aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandizes, brigandages, budgerigars, disagreeing, redesigning, redigesting.

 

+5 letters: aggrandizers, disaggregate, disregarding, ditchdiggers, gingerbreads, predigesting, safeguarding, straightedge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DIGGERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 47 47 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    --.    --.    .    .-.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01000111 01000111 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#71 &#71 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0047 0047 0045 0052 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38434141395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць, for Chinese;
Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech;
Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו'ת שמרים, " י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch;
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Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, ‏شخص إيطالي, ‏اللغة الإيطالية, ‏الإيطالي, ‏إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian;
korean, ‏كوري شمالي, ‏اللغة الكورية, ‏كوري جنوبي, ‏كوري, Coreanu, корейски, корейски език, Koryano, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejský, korejec, korejština, Koreaans, koreanskt, coréen, Koreaansk, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτησ, κορεάτικοσ, koreai, 한국, koreano, coréia, a língua coreana, coreean, limba coreeanã, кореец, корейский, Kolea, korejski jezik, korejski, koreanac, coreano, koreansk, ชาวเกาหลี, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський, người Triều tiên tiếng Triều tiên, for korean;
Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;