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Digger.

A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈdɪɡɚ/General-American/ˈdɪɡə/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.

  2. One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.

    historical
  3. One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.

    derogatory · obsolete
Where this word comes from

* Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.

noun/ˈdɪɡɚ/General-American/ˈdɪɡə/Received-Pronunciation
  1. A user of the American news aggregator Digg.

    Internet
Where this word comes from

From Digg + -er.

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