Word of the week - fossick

 

 

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Warm Regards,

 

 

From: Ivy Ngu Chew Ju (SBO/PCSB)
Sent: 04 November 2010 08:21
To: {SBO_PCSB_ALL_1}
Subject: Word of the week - fossick

 

Dear All,

 

Please to share

fossick\ FOS-ik \  , verb;

 

1. To search for any object by which to make gain.

2. Mining.  To undermine another's digging; search for waste gold in relinquished workings, washing places, etc.

3. To hunt; seek; ferret out.

 

 

Quotes:

 

1.    Chorley ate and watched pigeons fossick  for crumbs among the iron table and chair legs.

-- Elizabeth Knox, Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet

 

2.    'We must go and fossick  for a bit now,' I said, 'just for enough to make the pot boil; but we won't take any more of your "tucker," Mrs. Mangrove, without paying.'

-- Rolf Boldrewood, The Miner's Right, a Tale of the Australian Goldfields

 

Origin:

An Australian coinage, fossick's  derivation is uncertain, but may be an alteration of fuss .

 

 

Ivy Ngu C.J.

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