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diggeress

diggeress noun: a miner's wife.

Noun

diggeress (plural diggeresses)

  1. (Australia, archaic) A miner's wife.
    • 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.1914, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 563

Forms of diggeress

pluraldiggeresses

Origin of diggeress

From digger + -ess.

Questions about diggeress

What does diggeress mean?
Diggeress means a miner's wife.
What part of speech is diggeress?
Diggeress is a noun.
What is the plural of diggeress?
The plural of diggeress is diggeresses.

Words near diggeress in the dictionary

  1. digger pine
  2. digger pines
  3. digger wasp
  4. digger wasps
  5. Diggerese
  6. diggeress
  7. diggeresses
  8. diggers
  9. Diggers Camp
  10. Diggers Rest
  11. Digges

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