Digger

digger English Pronunciation en /ˈdɪɡɚ/ GA en /ˈdɪɡə/ RP en ɪɡə(ɹ) 2 en Dig ger Etymology 1 en 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 A soldier from Australia or New Zealand. en historical One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649. en obsolete derogatory One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food. en Shoshokie Shoshoko Derived terms en Diggerese Translations A soldier from Australia or New Zealand Etymology 2 From en Digg er occupation. Noun en Internet A user of the American news aggregator Digg. en PC World 2006 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. en Dan Zarrella Social News and Bookmarking The Social Media Marketing Book O’Reilly Media November 2009 2011 section “Reddit” 121 Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral. en B. J. Mendelson And Now You Know … the Rest of the Story Social Media Is Bullshit New York, N.Y. St. Martin’s Press September 2012 part I 53 978-1-250-01750-5 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 en deggir rigged en People German Pronunciation de /ˈdɪɡɐ/ de De-Digger.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ɪɡɐ 2 de Dig ger Etymology 1 de :bor en:digger de en digger. Noun m digger de Goldgräber Declension m Etymology 2 de, possibly a pronunciation respelling of de 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 en nigga, likewise through hip-hop culture. Noun m,-:s,s de term of address de colloquial originally regional de Dicker fatty, used as an informal term of address. de Alter Keule Kumpel Bre Bra Bratan de Alternative forms de Dicker Digga Diggah Diggi de Diggha Diggär Dikka Dikkah rare Further reading Dicker (Anrede) de de pronunciation spellings