Fossick

Quick meaning: Fossick is a verb meaning (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.

Meaning

(intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, British, dialect) To be troublesome.

Example Sentences

He began to fossick again, shifting the bars of soap around until he became aware of something moving behind him.

I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place.

Back in the kitchen, and with his mother off fossicking around for place mats, he tried to start the oven a couple of more times, then stood back scraching [sic] his head.

I could have built a better fire myself but I was too cold when we arrived to fossick around for twigs. I went back to the warm car and let Neil and Henry fossick. Playing the dumb broad is profitable too.

Word Forms

• fossicks
• fossicking
• fossicked

Synonyms for fossick

Depending on context, synonyms include noodle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ferk, noodle, rout, root, rootch, ripe.

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