diggeress

English

Etymology

From digger +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

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Noun

diggeress (plural diggeresses)

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