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diggeresses

diggeresses is the plural of diggeress.

Meaning of diggeress

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

Questions about diggeresses

What is diggeresses the plural of?
Diggeresses is the plural of diggeress.

Words near diggeresses in the dictionary

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

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