dig /dig/

1. To excavate
2. To turn up with a spade or otherwise
3. To get or put by digging
4. To poke or thrust
5. To taunt (informal)
6. To understand or approve (old slang)
7. To take note of (old slang)

1. To use a spade
2. To seek (for) by digging (lit and figurative)
3. To burrow
4. To mine
5. To lodge (informal)
6. To study hard (N Am sl)

1. An act or course of digging
2. An archaeological excavating expedition
3. An excavation made by archaeologists
4. A poke
5. A taunt (informal)
6. A hard-working student (N Am sl)

diggˈable adjective

diggˈer noun

1. A person or animal that digs
2. A miner, esp a gold-miner
3. An Australian or New Zealand soldier (Aust and NZ inf)
4. An informal Australian term of address
5. A machine for digging

diggˈings plural noun

1. Places where mining is carried on, esp for gold
2. Digs (dated inf)

digs plural noun (informal)

1. Accommodation
2. Lodgings

digger wasp noun

Any of various kinds of burrowing wasp

digging stick noun

A primitive tool, a pointed stick, sometimes weighted, for digging the ground

dig a pit for (figurative)

To set a trap for

dig in

1. To cover over by digging
2. To work hard
3. To take up a defensive position (lit or figurative)
4. To begin eating (informal)

• good gracious
• good grief
• good hands
• good heavens
• good humour
• good-humoured
• good-humouredly
• good-humouredness
• good hunting
• goodier
• goodies
• goodiest
• goodiness
• goodinesses
• goodish
• good-King-Henry
• good-lack
• goodlier
• goodliest
• goodlihead
• goodliheads
• good-liking
• goodliness
• goodlinesses
• good-looker