Digger

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɪɡɚ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɪɡə/ Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ) Hyphenation: Dig‧ger === Etymology 1 === (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors. ==== Noun ==== Digger (plural Diggers) A soldier from Australia or New Zealand. (historical) One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649. (obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food. Synonyms: Shoshokie, Shoshoko ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Digg +‎ -er. ==== Noun ==== Digger (plural Diggers) (Internet) A user of the American news aggregator Digg. === Anagrams === rigged == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈdɪɡɐ/ Rhymes: -ɪɡɐ Hyphenation: Dig‧ger === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from English digger. ==== Noun ==== Digger m (strong, genitive Diggers, plural Digger) digger Synonym: Goldgräber ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === Uncertain, possibly a pronunciation respelling of Dicker in a Hamburg accent, from where the term was popularized via hip-hop culture starting from the 1990s. Pronunciation and spelling likely influenced by American English nigga, likewise through hip-hop culture. ==== Noun ==== Digger (colloquial, originally regional) pronunciation spelling of Dicker (literally “fatty”), used as an informal term of address. Synonyms: Alter, Keule, Kumpel, Bre, Bra, Bratan For quotations using this term, see Citations:Digger. ===== Alternative forms ===== Dicker, Digga, Diggah, Diggi (rare) Diggha, Diggär, Dikka, Dikkah === Further reading === “Digger” in Duden online “Digger”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Dicker (Anrede) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de