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underdig en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From under- + dig.
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(transitive) To dig under or beneath (something); to undermine.
Issa found a place where the fence had been underdug, and thought about sneaking into the town. But she couldn't think of anything she wanted to do in there.
2011, Adam Roberts, By Light Alone, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 348:
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underdig en · VERB · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
Blend of understand + dig (“to understand”).
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(qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To fully understand or comprehend.
[…] there are these pipes and boughs and heifer cows and the cows represent the young maidens who are "overwrought" and there are musicians playing songs and people who really like underdig the parade but feel sorta depressed because they know the time will be gone soon like a memory and it's all very cool and written in rhyme which we studied.
2018, Carolyn Light Bell, “All He Saw Was Summer”, in I Heard a Fish Cry: And Other Stories, Lisbon: Adelaide Books, →ISBN, page 193:Fuck givin' body shots I'm hittin' you in yo wig / Ya underdig?
2000 September 12, “Uptown” (2:06 from the start), in Baller Blockin', performed by Turk ft. B.G.:Niggaz know who I be and what I represent, so my hood stripes could never be in question, you underdig me? I ain't trying to shit on they character, they went out like straight Gs.
2006, K'wan Foye, Hood Rat, New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 308:
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