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diggable

adj

Etymology

From Digg + -able.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from *dīkaz✻ — “pool, puddle; dyke, ditch”
  3. derived from *dīkōn✻
  4. derived from dīcian — “to dig a ditch, mound up earth”
  5. inherited from diggen
  6. formed as diggable — “dig + -able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being dug.

    • The rocky soil was diggable, but only with difficulty.
    • Though there seemed to be some “diggable” places, Dr. Levinthal said that the project scientists “might decide to look around” for alternate sampling sites.
    • Intriguingly, their idea also explains why gold and platinum are found in the Earth’s crust, well within diggable reach.

  2. Suitable for the American news aggregator Digg.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for diggable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA