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Etymology
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Noun
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digger
+
-ess
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diggeress
(
plural
diggeresses
)
(
Australia
,
archaic
)
A
miner
's
wife
.
1914
,
Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine
, page
563
:
I merely know the bare facts, and bare enough the whole stony subject seems to me, but it was important enough to occupy the close attention of seventy-three diggers and one
diggeress
.
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