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Is dig a Scrabble word?

Yes, dig is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of dig?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To 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.Examples: "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."intransitivetransitive

2. (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.Examples: "to dig potatoes"; "to dig up gold"transitive

3. (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

4. (US, slang, dated) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.Examples: "Peter dug at his books all the harder."USdatedslang

5. (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.Examples: "to dig up evidence"; "to dig out the facts"; "Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight."figuratively

6. (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball

noun (English)

1. (archaic, slang) A hard blow, especially (boxing) a straight left-hander delivered under the opponent's guard.Examples: "[…] 'let him go, I tell you, or I'll be after breaking your ugly mug,' and with that I gave him a dig that knocked him into smithereens."archaicslang

2. (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.

3. (cricket) An innings.

4. (US, colloquial, dated) A plodding and laborious student.Examples: "Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side."UScolloquialdated

5. (UK, dialect, dated) A tool for digging.UKdateddialectal

6. (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.Examples: "a £1 charity shop dig"slang

verb (English)

1. (dated slang) To understand.Examples: "You dig?"; "McCord has blown. Mitchell has blown. No tap on my telephone / Halderman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Dean / It follows a pattern if you dig what I mean"datedslang

2. (dated slang, transitive) To appreciate, or like.Examples: "Baby, I dig you."; "«And dig her!» yelled Dean, pointing at another woman. «Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!»"; "Oh, but California / California, I'm coming home / I'm going to see the folks I dig"datedslangtransitive

noun (English)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.Examples: "dig toxicity"colloquialuncountable

noun (English)

1. (Lancashire, obsolete) A duck.Examples: "Powltrey, &c, &c. Item ten turkeys … Item three Digs [an old Cheshire word for duck] and a Drake … Item ffower Capons … [The word's gloss has been inserted by Earwaker]"; "dig, or digg, s.—A duck. A gentleman introduced a man to an old lady in America as an inhaitant of Cheshire, her old county. "I'll soon see," said she, "if he is reet Cheshire born. Tell me," said she to the man, "what a dig, a snig, a grig, a peckled poot, and a peannot are?" B. Kennett in his Glossary of the British Museum, has the word "dig." "As fierce as a dig," is a Lancashire and probably a Cheshire proverb, and reminds one of the Cloucestershire name for a sheep, viz.: "A Cotswold lion.""; "Smith's farm was near to Parrs; new buildings had been built in the Hemp Croft. He carried coals in his cart by an inside chest, and had three hives of bees and several spinning wheels; his poultry comprised four hens, two diggs or ducks, and one drake. His total estate was £66. 10s."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (astronomy) Initialism of dwarf irregular galaxy.Synonyms: dIabbreviationalt-ofinitialism

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "dig"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "dig"?

Scrabble
5 points
D2
I1
G2
Words With Friends
6 points
D2
I1
G3

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