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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Aust. To work out the pillars of abandoned claims, or work over waste heaps in hope of finding gold. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Etymology: Fossick \Fos"sick\, intransitive verb. [Dial. English fossick, fossuck, troublesome person, fussick to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Compare to Fuss.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fossick | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FOSSICK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тършувам (ferret, ferret about, forage around, fumble, rake about, rummage, scrounge, skirmish), копая (break ground, delve, dig, dredge, excavate, grub, hoe, mine, navvy, pickax, scoop, scoop out, shovel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | farfouiller. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | herumstöbern (ferret about, ferret around, forage, rummage about, rummage around, search about, search around, snoop around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | arany után kutat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | frugare (fumble, nuzzle, poke about, poke around, ransack, rifle through, root, root about, root around, rout about, rummage, scrabble, search). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ossickfay revolver (circle, grub, roll, run, spade, tousle, trundle, turn over, upturn, wamble), remexer (jumble, rake, rummage, search), rebuscar (ransack, rummage), procurar (browse, come after, court, dub, ensue, find out, fish, get, hunt up, look after, look for, look up, nose, obtrude, pursue, quest, rake, rake up, search, search after, search for, seek). (various references) cotrobãi (grub, ransack, rummage), cãuta (covet, ferret, forage, Hunt, look about for, look for, look out, look out for, look up, make a search, nose, quest, search after, search for, seek, seek for, want). (various references) шарить (fumble, snoop around). (various references) buscar oro. (various references) treva (fumble, grabble, grope). (various references) araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, quest, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FOSSICK": fossicked, fossicker, fossickers, fossicking, fossicks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FOSSICK" (pronounced 'Fos"sick'): Brainsick, Cropsick, heartsick, homesick, seasick. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-i-k-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sickos. | |
-2 letters: coifs, fiscs, sicko, sicks, socks. | |
-3 letters: coif, coss, fico, fisc, foci, foss, kifs, kiss, kois, koss, sick, sics, skis, sock. | |
-4 letters: cis, cos, ick, ifs, kif, koi, kos, sic, sis, ski, sos. | |
-5 letters: if, is, of, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-i-k-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: fossicks. | |
+2 letters: disfrocks, fossicked, fossicker, stockfish. | |
+3 letters: fossickers, fossicking, rockfishes. | |
+4 letters: stockfishes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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