digger

digger
   Associated mainly with Australian men, who have been using this term as a friendly form of address since the 1850s. It began on the gold-fields of Australia and New Zealand, where the word had its literal meaning. In Redback, by Howard Jacobson, it is used by an Australian man to address an Englishman. The speaker equates it with ‘sport’. Mrs Cecily Dynes, a correspondent from Australia, reports that the short form ‘Dig’ was much used by Australian soldiers during the Second World War.

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