ditch digger
Definition
- Noun:
- A laborer who digs ditches: A person whose job involves excavating long, narrow trenches in the ground, typically for drainage, irrigation, or laying pipes/cables.
Examples
- Noun:
- The construction company hired several ditch diggers to prepare the site for the new water lines.
- Before modern machinery, a ditch digger's work was entirely manual and very physically demanding.
Advanced Usage
- The term can be used metaphorically to describe someone engaged in very hard, basic, or unglamorous physical labor.
- He started his career as a metaphorical ditch digger in the mailroom before rising to management.
Variants and Related Words
- Ditchdigger (noun): An alternative, often single-word spelling with the same meaning.
- Ditch digging (noun): The act or occupation of digging ditches.
- Ditch digging is strenuous work.
Synonyms
- Excavator: A person or machine that digs holes or trenches.
- Laborer: A worker, especially one doing physical work.
- Navvy (chiefly British): A laborer employed in building roads, canals, or railways.
Related Phrases
- "To end up a ditch digger": An idiom suggesting a menial job as an undesirable outcome, often used in hyperbolic warnings about the consequences of poor life choices.
- If you don't study, you'll end up a ditch digger!
Noun
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a laborer who digs ditches
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