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.
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Fossick
//ˈfɒsɪk//
Synonyms for "fossick" (2 found)
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5 translations across 3 languages.
German
2 entries- entlocken verb (to elicit information; to ferret out)
- suchen verb (to search for something)
Māori
2 entries- ketuketu verb (to search for something)
- ketuketu verb (to elicit information; to ferret out)
Spanish
1 entries- recabar verb (to elicit information; to ferret out)
Sample sentences
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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.
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How strange it was to see men do something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant. There wasn't much room for beauty in the lives of our men. The only exception was the strange Yuri Orlov who carved lovely, old-world toys from stuff he fossicked up from the forest floor.
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He began to fossick again, shifting the bars of soap around until he became aware of something moving behind him.
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