Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An udder, breast, or teat of a female animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of dig.
- noun The pap or nipple of a woman or a female animal; the breast, with reference to suckling. It is now applied to that of a human female only in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
dig . - noun A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Mammary gland on domestic mammal containing more than two breasts. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dig .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an udder or breast or teat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_ -- no consecrated one, but one dug ready to receive a corpse; _dug, in savage threatening of slaughter, for the reception of one yet living_ -- the son of the noble owner of that ancient domain -- dug in sight of his father's house, in his own park, by wretches who have warned him to prepare to fill that grave in October!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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When Christopher Columbus asked the West Indian savages what they called their dug-outs they said _canoas_; so a boat dug out of a solid log had the first right to the word we now use for a canoe built up out of several different parts.
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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The missive said of one student, "The hole she has dug is deeper than the mine shaft in Chile."
List of failing students mistakenly sent to all students Daniel de Vise 2010
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Proof is said to reside in the ancient papyrus documents which archaeologists have dug from the sands of Egypt over the past century and a quarter.
Charles E. Hill: The Conspiracy Theory Of The Gospels Charles E. Hill 2010
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They had been made so in a single night, by his mother, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the landslide back of Port Adams.
MAUKI 2010
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The one and only reason McCain dug her out of a snowbank.
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On the way back he picked up another trail, he once again dug his nose down in the grass to better get on the scent.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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Proof is said to reside in the ancient papyrus documents which archaeologists have dug from the sands of Egypt over the past century and a quarter.
Charles E. Hill: The Conspiracy Theory Of The Gospels Charles E. Hill 2010
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On the way back he picked up another trail, he once again dug his nose down in the grass to better get on the scent.
New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman 2009
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It blasts up the drifts like white dirt dug from the earth, a frozen burial ground encircling our thin tent, entrapping us.
The Amber Sea Paul de Denus 2010
yarb commented on the word dug
Weissmuller wakes us nightly with a shriek,
beating his wizened dugs like bongo-drums,
simian brain in simian physique.
- Peter Reading, Some of Their Efforts, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
June 28, 2008