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digging

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈdɪɡɪŋ(ɡ)//

The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

noun

  1. 1

    The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

  2. 2

    A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.

  3. 3

    datedAccommodation; lodgings; digs.

  4. 4

    archaicRegion; locality.

    This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of digpresent participle and gerund of dig

Forms

plural
diggings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).