dig

Plural: digs

Noun

the site of an archeological exploration
- "they set up camp next to the dig"
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"
the act of digging
the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs"
An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
A thrust; a poke.
A hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard.
A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
An innings.
A cutting, sarcastic remark.
The occupation of digging for gold.
A plodding and laborious student.
A tool for digging.
A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
Digoxin.
A duck.

Verb

Verb Forms: dug, digged, digging, digs

To break up, turn over, or remove earth.
turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- "Dig we must"
create by digging
- "dig a hole"
- "dig out a channel"
work hard
- "She was digging away at her math homework"
remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- "dig salt"
- "dig coal"
thrust down or into
- "dig the oars into the water"
- "dig your foot into the floor"
remove the inner part or the core of
poke or thrust abruptly
get the meaning of something
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.
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
To understand.
To appreciate, or like.

Examples

a £1 charity shop dig
Baby, I dig you.
dig toxicity
He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.
They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
to dig out the facts
to dig potatoes
to dig up evidence
to dig up gold
You dig?
You might have to DIG deep into your vocabulary to find a seven-letter word here.

Origin / Etymology

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 French diguer (“to dig”), from Middle French diguer, from Old French dikier, itself a borrowing of the same Germanic root (from Middle Dutch dijc). More at ditch, dike.

Synonyms

apprehend, archeological site, barb, compass, comprehend, cut into, delve, dig out, dig up, digging, drudge, excavate, excavation, fag, get the picture, gibe, grasp, grind, grok, hollow, jab, jibe, labor, labour, moil, poke, prod, savvy, shaft, shot, slam, stab, toil, travail, turn over

Scrabble Score: 5

dig: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dig: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dig: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

dig: valid Words With Friends Word