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gum-digger

gum-digger is the alternative form of gumdigger.

Meaning of gumdigger

Noun

gumdigger (plural gumdiggers)

  1. (New Zealand, 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.

Forms of gum-digger

pluralgum-diggers

Questions about gum-digger

What is gum-digger the alternative form of?
Gum-digger is the alternative form of gumdigger.

Words near gum-digger in the dictionary

  1. gum up
  2. gum up the works
  3. gum water
  4. gum-dammar
  5. gum-dammer
  6. gum-digger
  7. gum-diggers
  8. gum-digging
  9. gum-job
  10. gum-jobs
  11. gum-rash

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