dig

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A duck. obsolete
    — Powltrey, &c, &c. Item ten turkeys … Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake … Item ffower Capons … [The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]
  2. Digoxin. colloquial,uncountable
    — dig toxicity
  3. An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
  4. Any act of digging to find or retrieve something.
    — Iron Springs offers a guided clam dig for first timers or those who are rusty at spotting the clam's show at low tide. It includes a license and all the equipment you'll need to catch your limit on Copalis Beach […]
  5. A thrust; a poke.
    — He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
  6. A hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard. archaic,slang
    — […] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens.
  7. A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
  8. An innings.
  9. A cutting, sarcastic remark.
    — Buckram ! that's a dig at my trade.
  10. The occupation of digging for gold.
    — Don Quixote told us that Western Australia was the same to him as any other country, except that it possessed the charm of novelty, and he assured us that as soon as he was well enough he would be off on the "dig" once more.
  11. A plodding and laborious student. US,colloquial,dated
    — Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.
  12. A tool for digging. UK,dated,dialectal
  13. A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand. slang
    — a £1 charity shop dig
动词 v.
  1. To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. intransitive,transitive
    — They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
  2. To understand. dated,slang
    — You dig?
  3. To appreciate, or like. dated,slang,transitive
    — Baby, I dig you.
  4. To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. transitive
    — to dig potatoes
  5. To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
  6. To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously. US,dated,slang
    — Peter dug at his books all the harder.
  7. To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up. figuratively
    — to dig up evidence
  8. To thrust; to poke.
    — He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
  9. To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

词形变化

digs present,singular,third-person digging participle,present dug participle,past dug past digged archaic,participle,past digged archaic,past digs plural digs present,singular,third-person digging participle,present dug participle,past dug past digs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
crate-dig dig a hole for oneself dig around dig deep dig down dig for victory diggable diggety dig in dig in one's heels dig into dig oneself in a hole dig oneself into a hole dig one's grave with a fork dig one's grave with a fork and spoon dig one's heels in dig one's own grave dig out dig out of a hole dig over dig round dig up dig up dirt dig yourself double dig gold-dig he who digs a pit for others falls in himself misdig redig underdig undig dig box dig on
相关词
cratedigger digs

词源

词源 1
From Middle English diggen (“to dig”, 13th c.), an alteration of dīken, from Old English dīcian (“to dig a ditch, mound up earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *dīkōn, which see for cognates. This verb is denominal from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (“pool, puddle; dyke, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stab, dig”).
The form with g may have been influenced by Old French *diguer, a variant of dikier, itself from the West Germanic verb above. French forms with g are attested only in the 15th c., thus 200 years later than in English. On the other hand, French has according forms also for the underlying noun (cf. digue) and the phonetic development is more plausible in French than in English.
词源 2
From African American Vernacular English; due to lack of writing of slave speech, etymology is difficult to trace, but it has been suggested that it is from Wolof dëgg, dëgga (“to understand, to appreciate”). It has also been suggested that it is from Irish dtuig, thus being a doublet of twig. Others do not propose a distinct etymology, instead considering this a semantic shift of the existing English term (compare dig in/dig into).
词源 3
Shortening.
词源 4
Unknown. Compare Middle English digge.
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary