fossick

[prettygoodword]

fossick - 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.

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[nugirlontheblok.livejournal.com]

Oh, an Aussie one I actually know, and use! I'm always fossicking about :)