digging — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

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

   Usage

   • Countable
   • Uncountable

3. Accommodation; lodgings; digs.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Countable
   • Dated
   • Uncountable

4. Region; locality.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Colloquial
   • Countable
   • in-plural
   • often
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.”

Noun

1. the act of digging

   Synonyms

   excavationdig

   Broader terms

   creating by removal

   Examples

   there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton