Boggle Word Finder
DIG
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
1
pts
Big
too short
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Super Big
too short
(min 4)
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DIG is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).
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verb
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intransitivetransitiveTo move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
- They dug an eight-foot ditch along the side of the road.
- In the wintertime, heavy truck tires dig into the road, forming potholes.
- If the plane can't pull out of the dive it is in, it'll dig a hole in the ground.
- My seven-year-old son always digs a hole in the middle of his mashed potatoes and fills it with gravy before he starts to eat them.
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transitiveTo get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- to dig potatoes
- to dig up gold
- To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- USdatedslangTo work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
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figurativelyTo investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- to dig up evidence
- to dig out the facts
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To thrust; to poke.
- He dug an elbow into my ribs and guffawed at his own joke.
- To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
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datedslangTo understand.
- You dig?
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datedslangtransitiveTo appreciate, or like.
- Baby, I dig you.
noun
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- Any act of digging to find or retrieve something.
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A thrust; a poke.
- He guffawed and gave me a dig in the ribs after telling his latest joke.
- archaicslangA hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard.
- A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- An innings.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- UScolloquialdatedA plodding and laborious student.
- UKdateddialectalA tool for digging.
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slangA rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- a £1 charity shop dig
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colloquialuncountableDigoxin.
- dig toxicity
- obsoleteA duck.