(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) 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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(intransitive, British, dialect) To be troublesome.
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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