Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gumdigger

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gumdig-ger
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

New Zealand usage

Etymology

From gum + digger.

Usage

New Zealand usage

Inflected Forms

gumdiggers (plural) gum-digger (alternative)

Questions

What does gumdigger mean?: 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.
Where does gumdigger come from?: From gum + digger.

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