Difference between Digs and Diggings

What is the difference between Digs and Diggings?

Digs as a noun is an archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. while Diggings as a noun is the action performed by a person or thing that digs.

Digs

Part of speech: verb

Definition: 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.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. Lodgings. From diggings.

Diggings

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action performed by a person or thing that digs.Late 19th and early 20th C: accommodations; lodgings; the precursor to the slang 'digs'.In the US, in the same time period: establishment.

We hope you now know whether to use Digs or Diggings in your sentence.

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