Fossicker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who fossicks.

    "There was also, I think, brisk trafficking in metaphysics around the traps since it was widely believed that opal was found not by geologists, by fossickers, but by the dedicated, the single-minded, the pure in heart."

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"There was also, I think, brisk trafficking in metaphysics around the traps since it was widely believed that opal was found not by geologists, by fossickers, but by the dedicated, the single-minded, the pure in heart."

Etymology

From fossick + -er.

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