Lodgings, place of abode.
1838. Look here, Ned, I reckon it’s about time we should go to our diggings; I am dead beat.—J. C. Neal, ‘Charcoal Sketches,’ ii. 119 (Farmer; quoted by de Vere).
1842. With whom did the idea originate? It’s novel in these “diggins” at least.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, May 6.
1844. She won’t be taken with a cold chill, when she realises what is being done in these diggings.—Dickens, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit,’ ch. xxi.
1849. He [the Georgian] strode a ‘right smart chance of a critter,’ that could n’t be beat in ‘them diggins,’ if you ’d believe him.—Knick. Mag., xxxiv. 113 (Aug.).
1853. The smartest weather that can be catched up in any body’s diggings [is found here].—Daily Morning Herald, St. Louis, Jan. 14.
1853. How dare you talk thus in these days, and, above all, in these diggings?—F. Townsend, ‘Fun and Earnest,’ p. 239 (N.Y.).
