Diggeress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A miner's wife. Australia, archaic
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From digger + -ess.
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