Synonymer

Uttal

  • GenAm:
    • IPA: /ˈdɪɡɚ/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈdɪɡə/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /dɪ.ɡə(r)/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
  2. A tool for digging.
  3. A spade (playing card).
  4. One who digs.
  5. (Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
  6. (Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment.
  7. (Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.

Exempel

  • The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn′t dug any holes for a long, long time.
  • 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.
  • Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that′s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
  • 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.
  • Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
  • For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
  • Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger, to honour their fellow workers.

Böjningsformer

Pluraldiggers