Figger vs Digger - What's the difference?
figger | digger |
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches; an excavator.
A tool for digging.
* 2009 , Sharon Bomgaars, The Best Clubhouse Ever ,
A spade (playing card).
One who digs.
* 1997 , Barbara J. Wrede, Civilizing Your Puppy ,
* 2005 , Gary R. Sampson, Dick Wolfsie, Dog Dilemmas: Simple Solutions to Everyday Problems ,
(Australia, obsolete) A gold miner, one who digs for gold.
* 1853 , (editor), Household Words , Volume 21,
(Australia, dated) An informal nickname for a friend; used as a term of endearment .
(Australia, informal) An Australian soldier.
* 1998 , Helen Gilbert, Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre ,
* 2002 , Jeff Doyle, Jeffrey Grey, Peter Pierce, Australia's Vietnam War ,
* 2004 , Lisanne Gibson, Joanna Besley, Monumental Queensland: Signposts on a Cultural Landscape ,
As nouns the difference between figger and digger
is that figger is while digger is a soldier from australia or new zealand.As a verb figger
is .digger
English
Noun
(en noun)page 143,
- The post hole digger did look ancient. I was pretty certain myself that it hadn?t dug any holes for a long, long time.
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- You?ve tried the supposedly sure method of squirting the digger' with water from a hose, and that hasn?t worked.This step will discourage 99 percent of the ' diggers .
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- Most retrievers are not inveterate diggers — that?s a trait usually reserved for other breeds like wire-haired terriers and schnauzers.
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- A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” ? came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.
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- Costume played a key part in his differentiation from British soldiers as the Digger uniform came to embody Australian versions of masculinity and mateship.
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- For many, the congruencies of the Anzac legend and the diggers who served in Vietnam were slight, too slight, and the legend seemed unable to accommodate them.
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- Like many other Queensland communities, the workers from the North Ipswich Railway Workshops chose a statue of a soldier, or digger , to honour their fellow workers.