digger
Plural: diggers
Noun
- One who digs, typically for minerals or archaeological finds.
- a laborer who digs
- a machine for excavating
- A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
- A tool for digging.
- A spade (playing card).
- One who digs.
- A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
- An Australian soldier.
- a friendly term of address, especially to a man.
Examples
- A good Scrabble player is a DIGGER for obscure words, unearthing them from the depths of the dictionary.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 9
digger: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddigger: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
digger: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
digger: valid Words With Friends Word