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prettygoodwordfossick - v., to search for gold or gemstones by reworking washings or waste piles; to search about, rummage.
Chiefly Australia and New Zealand, but from English dialect meaning to find out, dig up, and I first encountered it in a Trollope novel. I use it mainly in the expanded sense, to ferret about.
Kicking off a theme week of Nifty Effs.
---L.
Chiefly Australia and New Zealand, but from English dialect meaning to find out, dig up, and I first encountered it in a Trollope novel. I use it mainly in the expanded sense, to ferret about.
Kicking off a theme week of Nifty Effs.
---L.
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Date: 2006-05-08 05:02 pm (UTC)