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fossicker

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fos⋅sick

  [fos-ik] Chiefly Australian.
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–verb (used without object)
1. Mining. to undermine another's digging; search for waste gold in relinquished workings, washing places, etc.
2. to search for any object by which to make gain: to fossick for clients.
–verb (used with object)
3. to hunt; seek; ferret out.
Origin:
1850–55; cf. dial. fossick troublesome person, fussick to bustle about, appar. fuss + -ick, var. of -ock

Related forms:
fos⋅sick⋅er, noun
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fos·sick   (fŏs'ĭk)   
v.   fos·sicked, fos·sick·ing, fos·sicks Australian

v.   intr.

  1. To search for gold, especially by reworking washings or waste piles.

  2. To rummage or search around, especially for a possible profit.

v.   tr.
To search for by or as if by rummaging.

[English dialectal, to find out, dig up.]
fos'sick·er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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