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gold digging


gold digging ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. the work of digging for gold.
  2. gold diggings, a region where digging or seeking for gold, especially by placer mining, is carried on.

Origin of gold digging First recorded in 1795–1805 Related Words for gold digging fool, trifle, wanton, flirt, toy, vamp, titillate, philander, dally, operate Examples from the Web for gold digging Contemporary Examples of gold digging

  • Ashley has attacked the legal side of gold-digging in the past, without naming names.

    Call Girls Out-Class Mistresses

    Tracy Quan

    December 6, 2009

  • Historical Examples of gold digging

  • Say, but this gold-digging is no fun, no matter how you do it, is it?

    The Cave of Gold

    Everett McNeil

  • There is, of course, a good deal of excitement and anxiety about gold-digging.

    A Boy’s Voyage Round the World

    The Son of Samuel Smiles

  • “I was interrupted in a story of gold-digging last evening,” he said blandly.

    Sally Dows and Other Stories

    Bret Harte

  • I suppose no one in Cariboo ever made a sum like that by gold-digging, eh?

    Mirk Abbey, Volume 1(of 3)

    James Payn

  • His conception of gold-digging impressed me as being literary.

    Sonia Married

    Stephen McKenna

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