Home › Words › D › diggeressdiggeressdiggeress means A miner's wife.EtymologyFrom digger + -ess.nounA miner's wife.e.g.“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.” — 1914, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 563:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ditchdigger 64% match — One who digs ditches. vs diggeress →digger 62% match — A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches. vs diggeress →goldminer 60% match — Somebody who mines for gold. vs diggeress →excavatrix 58% match — A female that excavates; a female excavator. vs diggeress →diker 58% match — One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher. vs diggeress →delver 56% match — One who digs or delves, as with a spade. vs diggeress →grubber 56% match — One who grubs. vs diggeress →gumdigger 56% match — A person who dug for kauri gum, a fossilised resin, in the old kauri fields of New Zealand in the late 19th or early 20th century. vs diggeress →