The Diggtionary
This is for all of my fellow digg addicts.
1. Digg
[verb] To like a story and vote for (digg) it.
2. Bury
[verb] To not like a story and mark it as innacurate or lame, spam etc.
3. Dugg
[verb] Past tense of Digg.
4. Digging
[verb] Present tense of Digg. This is when you’re surfing the internet and trying not to throw up at 99% of the crap you see.
5. Digger
[noun] You! And if you aren’t a member of Digg, sign up here and enjoy great news on a minutely-basis, like the rest of us!
6. Diggnation
[noun] A place to watch videos about the biggest and best Digg.com stories of the week.
7. Diggworthy
[adjective] Wether or not a story is worth digging.
8. Diggtitis
[noun] The swelling of your head when one of your stories makes the front page of Digg.
9. Diggscuse
[hehe!] When you tell your spouse you can’t help with dinner because you need to fix something around the house, and you go digging instead.
10. Diggme
[prayer] When someone posts a story on Digg with “Please Digg” or “Digg this” in the title.
11. Diggosterone
[intangible] Babes + digg = front pageness.
12. Digg Clone
[tragedy] When a creatively-challenged person or entity starts a website that copies the features pioneered by Digg.com.
13. 
[clickables] Click on buttons like these to submit a story to Digg.com.
14. Diggalicious
[adjective] That feeling you get when you read a priceless story. One that helps you learn something you’ve been wanting to know for over a year, but gave up trying to sift through all the muck on the web to find it out.
15. Digg Addict
[noun] One who feels sudden “urges” to visit digg.com, or experiences grouchiness after a certain amount of hours without visiting digg.com.
16. Diggsumption
[friend benefit] Digging a story without reading it, assuming that it is a good story based on the title, or who submitted it.
17. Diggsistentialism
[unexplainable] The viral effect of Digg that can’t be explained, and hits you on a subliminal level. What would your life be like if Digg didn’t exist?
18. Digg-ret
[feeling] When you regret digging a story and proceed to “undigg” it.
19. Diggfanity
[opinionatedly essential] Leaving a curse word in your comment.
20. Dogg
[verb] To “hate” or talk shit in your digg comment.
21. Diggfucked
[verb:past tense] This is when you get back from the pub to discover that your site has been dugg into the ground and your server has turned belly up.
Suggestions? There’s no chance I got all of them yet.
Related Posts:
- Great, We get “BigSpy” when all we wanted was a “Keep Digging” button.
- Should Digg really take all the blame for the “Digg Effect?”
- Google finds Digg stories Faster than Digg
- Digg: Even with a Misspelled Title, Quality Content Prevails.
- Tapping Digg as a resource for Free Advice from Working Professionals
- If you’re not reading comments, You’re missing out on a potential wealth of information.




