fossick
动词 v.
英 /ˈfɒsɪk/
美 /ˈfɑsɪk/
英文释义
动词 v.
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To search for something; to rummage.
— 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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To search for something; to rummage.; To elicit information; to ferret out.
— [T]he honorable member went to the Railway department, and fossicked about for information, and he found, forsooth, that there had been a little rise in the salary of a son of a member of the House.
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To search for something; to rummage.; To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.
— The "fossicker" is one who wanders about old diggings, armed with a knife and pan, and who seldom sinks or drives, but "fossicks" or searches about the old heaps of dirt, or in the bottoms of deserted shafts and drives, keen-eyed after unobserved gold.
- To be troublesome.
词汇关系
词源
Probably from dialectal fossick (“to ferret out”), fossuck (“troublesome person”), fussick (“to potter over one's work”), fussock (“to bustle about”), further origin uncertain. Compare fuss.
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