ˈdug-up, a.
[See dig v. 14.]
Exhumed; unearthed. Usu. fig.
| 1897 Daily News 23 Jan. 5/5 When the loud laughter which greeted this dug-up relic had died away. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 4/2 The facts which this ‘dug-up’ material discloses are all to Thackeray's credit. 1921 Galsworthy To Let i. xii. 106 Thought her father had some ‘ripping’ pictures and some rather ‘dug-up’. |