ditchdigger
a worker whose occupation is digging ditches, especially with pick and shovel.
a person engaged in exhausting manual work, especially work that requires little or no originality.
Origin of ditchdigger
1Other words from ditchdigger
- ditchdigging, noun, adjective
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How to use ditchdigger in a sentence
Her corncob pipe—it was as rank a thing as ditch digger ever poisoned the clean air with.
Tramping on Life | Harry KempI became a ditch digger and a day laborer, and finally drifted into the professional wrestling racket.
The Double Spy | Dan T. Moore“He lives as no Dago ditch-digger with a particle of 28get-up-and-get in him would be willing to,” said Judge Emery finally.
The Squirrel-Cage | Dorothy CanfieldThe breakfast came and Craig ate like a ditch-digger—his own breakfast and most of Grant's.
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig | David Graham PhillipsAnd a ditch-digger, a good ditch-digger, ought to be respected—until he thinks he's the whole works.
Sonnie-Boy's People | James B. Connolly
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