Digger

See also: 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)

1. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
2. (historical) One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
3. (obsolete, derogatory) One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.

   Synonyms: Shoshokie, Shoshoko

Translations

A soldier from Australia or New Zealand

Etymology 2

From Digg +‎ -er.

Noun

Digger (plural Diggers)

1. (Internet) A user of the American news aggregator Digg.
   • 2006, PC World, page 115:

     THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.

   • 2009 November, Dan Zarrella, “Social News and Bookmarking”, in The Social Media Marketing Book, O’Reilly Media, published 2011, section “Reddit”, page 121:

     Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.

   • 2012 September, B. J. Mendelson, “And Now You Know … the Rest of the Story”, in Social Media Is Bullshit, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part I, page 53:

     As Justin Halpern told me, “I think what both [Rob Corddry and actress Kristen Bell] did, especially Rob, was that they got Shit My Dad Says seen by people that aggressively share stuff online. Diggers, Redditors, etc. […]”

Anagrams

• rigged

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪɡɐ/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡɐ
• Hyphenation: Dig‧ger

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English digger.

Noun

Digger m (strong, genitive Diggers, plural Digger)

1. digger

   Synonym: Goldgräber

Declension

Declension of Digger [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Digger	die	Digger
genitive	eines	des	Diggers	der	Digger
dative	einem	dem	Digger	den	Diggern
accusative	einen	den	Digger	die	Digger

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

2. (colloquial, 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
• Dicker (Anrede) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de