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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fossick .
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Examples
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He'd fossicked all the way to behind things way at the far corner:
Holy Crap! Storm! girliejones 2010
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He'd fossicked all the way to behind things way at the far corner:
Decluttering State of Mind girliejones 2010
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She fossicked in her bag for the plastic folder in which she was keeping her travel documents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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She fossicked in her bag for the plastic folder in which she was keeping her travel documents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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She fossicked in her bag for the plastic folder in which she was keeping her travel documents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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She fossicked in her bag for the plastic folder in which she was keeping her travel documents.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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She fossicked in her bag for the plastic folder in which she was keeping her travel documents.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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When I returned, it was to find that someone else had fossicked it out and carried it away, much to my disgust.
The Stephanie Meyer phenomenon Joan Druett 2008
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And the longer Blix and co. fossicked around in search of weapons of mass destruction, the more cynical I became about the pretext.
Boris in Iraq 2008
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We fossicked about for a while to see if the man who lived so long by himself in this lonely place had left anything behind him to help us make out what sort he was.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
rcadia commented on the word fossicked
Also used in a recent mystery referring to East African birds "...the little sparrows fossicked around in the branches of the shrubbery."
March 30, 2009