(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
(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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(UK) To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
To scrounge, to obtain in an unintended fashion, to scrape together.
(Australia) The practice by speckers or fossickers of walking around scanning the ground for gemstones.
(Ireland, intransitive) To rummage; to engage in inept activity; to noodle.
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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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