| 单词 | gumdigger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgum-digger gum-digger n. Australian and New Zealand slang a dentist. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist tooth-drawer1393 operator1598 dentist1759 dentologist1760 tooth-doctor1767 odontist1819 tooth-puller1839 dental surgeon1840 gum-digger1941 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 33 Gumdigger, a dentist. gum-digger gum-digger n. one who digs for kauri gum (see kauri n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines other specific substances jetter1614 gum-diggerc1858 chlorider1874 gemmer1889 gouger1898 hardrocker1903 opal gouger1904 c1858 F. D. Fenton in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 437 Of the kauri gum diggers 9/10ths are furnished by this tribe. 1871 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 4 Jan. 2/3 A gum-digger named Denis McManus, has been burned to death at Riverhead, Auckland. 1884 C. F. Gordon Cumming in Cent. Mag. 27 924 A large class of men, both Maori and European, known as gum-diggers. 1921 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 20 May 260 To break in these lands one must first face the legacy left by the gum-digger. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. ii. 14/1 Coal had been discovered by gum-diggers near Kawakawa in Northland in 1861. < as lemmas |
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