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Digging vs Bigging - What's the difference?

digging | bigging |

As nouns the difference between digging and bigging

is that digging is the action performed by a person or thing that digs while bigging is (obsolete) a home.

As verbs the difference between digging and bigging

is that digging is while bigging is .

digging

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
  • A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
  • (archaic, colloquial) region; locality

    • Verb

    (head)

    • bigging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A home.
  • (Scotland, northern England) A building, especially an outbuilding.
  • *1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 18:
  • *:The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings , set up in the time of the Old Queen
  • (coffee pot with strainer)