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Digs   /dɪgz/   Listen
Digs

noun
1.
An excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology.  Synonym: diggings.
2.
Temporary living quarters.  Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad.


Dig

verb
(past & past part. dug, digged is archaic; pres. part. digging)
1.
Turn up, loosen, or remove earth.  Synonyms: cut into, delve, turn over.  "Turn over the soil for aeration"
2.
Create by digging.  Synonym: dig out.  "Dig out a channel"
3.
Work hard.  Synonyms: drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail.  "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
4.
Remove, harvest, or recover by digging.  Synonyms: dig out, dig up.  "Dig coal"
5.
Thrust down or into.  "Dig your foot into the floor"
6.
Remove the inner part or the core of.  Synonyms: excavate, hollow.
7.
Poke or thrust abruptly.  Synonyms: jab, poke, prod, stab.
8.
Get the meaning of something.  Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy.
noun
1.
The site of an archeological exploration.  Synonyms: archeological site, excavation.
2.
An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.  Synonyms: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam.  "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"
3.
A small gouge (as in the cover of a book).
4.
The act of digging.  Synonyms: digging, excavation.
5.
The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow.  Synonym: jab.



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"Digs" Quotes from Famous Books



... digs in her garden With a shovel and a spoon, She weeds her lazy lettuce By the light ...
— A Few Figs from Thistles • Edna St. Vincent Millay
... evidently been worked, and the auriferous gravel must now be packed from the heights. A barrow with shafts at only one end may be seen beside one of the rockers, and it is conjectured that not all the gravel is picked in buckets. The miner seen in the background of brushwood digs the pay-gravel. ...
— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
... done" we're all a-hopin' to hear at the last day; an' the po' laborer thet digs a good ditch'll have thess ez good a chance to hear it ez the man ...
— Sonny, A Christmas Guest • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... one of the sappers, and when he found that I had left the Infantry to join them he was disgusted. "Well," said he, "you are a bloomin' ass. Why, blime me, mite, this here's the worst bleedin' job in the Army; a man digs till the sweat rolls off, and all he gets for it is a bleedin' shilling, and he has to give six-pence of that to the old woman; blime, it doesn't leave ye enough for bacca, and all the fellas think this is a bomb-proof job—why, blime, you dig ...
— Into the Jaws of Death • Jack O'Brien
... the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle! Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear; with mattock in his hand, Digs thro' whole rows of kindred and acquaintance By far his juniors! Scarce a skull's cast up But well he knew its owner, and can tell Some passage of his life. 1651 BLAIR: The ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various


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