[no obj.](informal Austral./NZ)rummage; search (非正式,澳/新西兰)搜索,搜寻 he spent years fossicking through documents. 他花了多年搜寻文献。 ■search for gold in abandoned workings 废矿淘金
派生 fossicker noun 语源
mid 19th cent. (referring to mining): probably from the English dialect sense 'obtain by asking' (i.e. ‘ferret out’)