ditch digger

Thân thiện

A ditch digger uses a shovel to dig a long trench in a field.

Definition

1. 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!

Học thuật

Noun

1. a laborer who digs ditches

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