shovelbum

English

Etymology

From shovel + bumCategory:English compound terms#SHOVELBUM.

Pronunciation

Noun

shovelbum (plural shovelbums)Category:English lemmas#SHOVELBUMCategory:English nouns#SHOVELBUMCategory:English countable nouns#SHOVELBUMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SHOVELBUMCategory:Pages with entries#SHOVELBUMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SHOVELBUM

  1. (USCategory:American English#SHOVELBUM, archaeologyCategory:en:Archaeology#SHOVELBUM, humorousCategory:English humorous terms#SHOVELBUM) A professional excavator on cultural resource management projects, who has done extensive field work.

Verb

shovelbum (third-person singular simple present shovelbums, present participle shovelbumming, simple past and past participle shovelbummed)Category:English lemmas#SHOVELBUMCategory:English verbs#SHOVELBUMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#SHOVELBUMCategory:Pages with entries#SHOVELBUMCategory:Pages with 1 entry#SHOVELBUM

  1. (USCategory:American English#SHOVELBUM, archaeologyCategory:en:Archaeology#SHOVELBUM, humorousCategory:English humorous terms#SHOVELBUM) To excavate, to do archaeology digs.

References

  • King, Thomas [F.] (2005), Doing Archaeology: a Cultural Resource Management Perspective., Left Coast Press, →ISBN
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