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Definition of Fossicking
1. fossick [v] - See also: fossick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossicking
Literary usage of Fossicking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"fossicking about " is now used as a general term for what the Americans call
skinning around, or what we should qualify as " ferreting about. ..."
2. The Song of the Manly Men: And Other Verses by Frank Hudson, Ballantyne Press (1908)
"Mates and diggers have died, and gone Back to the lifeless clay; Out of the lot
I still keep on In the same old fossicking way. Puffing my pipe in the ole ..."
3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"fossicking as pres. part., or as verbal noun, is commoner than the other parts
... 16: "Or fossicking (picking out the nuggets from the interstices of the ..."
4. State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand by William Pember Reeves (1902)
"In New South Wales for several years most of the men engaged by the bureau were
sent to private employers, or went out fossicking. ..."
5. Official Year Book of New South Wales by Australian Bureau of Statistics (1897)
"It is estimated that 4500 men who would otherwise have remained unemployed were
engaged in fossicking during 1895, and that they won some 36000 oz. of gold ..."
6. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1897)
"At Mount Huxley one or two men are still making good wages fossicking for gold, ;ind
the present holders of gold leases there should take immediate measures ..."
7. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"fossicking. H. gives this as a Warwickshire word = troublesome. In the extract
it seems to mean persistent, and persistency is often troublesome. ..."
8. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1853)
"By this "fossicking," as it is termed, men have been known to obtain three and
four pounds weight of gold in a day ; though such cases are not, ..."
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