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English
Pronunciation
Noun
digging (countable and uncountable, plural diggings)
- The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
- A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
- (dated, colloquial) Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
- (archaic, colloquial, often in the plural) Region; locality.
1843, “The Big Bear of Arkansas by T. B. Thorpe, Esq. of Louisiana”, in William T. Porter, editor, The Big Bear of Arkansas and Other Sketches Illustrative of Characters and Incidents in the South and South-west, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson And Brothers, page 18:This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”
Derived terms
Verb
digging
- present participle and gerund of dig
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English (crate)digging.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdi.ɡiŋk/
- Rhymes: -iɡiŋk
- Syllabification: di‧gging
Noun
digging m inan
- (hip-hop slang) cratedigging (an act of going to the record shop in order to look for old vinyl records to use them for sampling)
2022, O.S.T.R. (lyrics and music), “Matricio”, in 042 Requiem:Mogłem nie jeść, byle hajs był na digging
Wolnostylowe sesje do sampli z Amigi- I might not have eaten, as long as I had money for cratedigging
Freestyle sessions to Amiga samples