ditch digger

1. 1.

   a laborer who digs ditches

   Synonymsmud digger

   Broaderdigger

Questions about ditch digger

What does ditch digger mean?

ditch digger means "a laborer who digs ditches".

What is another word for ditch digger?

Close synonyms include mud digger. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ditch digger a common word?

ditch digger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.