An archaic Australian term for a miner's wife or the female partner of a gold digger.
An archaic Australian term for a miner's wife or the female partner of a gold digger. Dating from the gold rush era in Australia, when 'digger' referred to a miner, the '-ess' suffix formed the feminine counterpart. Now completely obsolete except in historical or period fiction contexts.
The account described how the diggeress would manage the camp while her husband worked the claim.
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(slang) A spade .
An archaic British term for a woman, derived from the thieves' cant word 'cove' (a man, a fellow) with a feminine suffix. The word belongs to the cant vocabulary of 17th and 18th-century British criminal and underworld speech and has no meaningful modern usage.
(archaic, British) A woman.
(NZ, historical) A person who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century.
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(AU, archaic) A miner's wife.
"diggeress" means: A miner's wife.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"diggeress" means: A miner's wife.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. Note the regional or dialect label (archaic) — usage may sound odd outside that variety. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
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