English Dictionary

fossick

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɒsɪk/

動詞

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(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To elicit information; to ferret out.

日本語の意味

情報を引き出す / 情報を探り出す / 情報を掘り起こす

She tried to fossick for information about the project's funding during the informal lunch.

彼女は気軽な昼食中に、プロジェクトの資金についての情報を引き出そうとした。

意味（1）

(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To elicit information; to ferret out.

[T]he honorable member went to the Railway department, and fossicked about for information, and he found, forsooth, that there had been a little rise in the salary of a son of a member of the House.

意味（2）

(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc., on the surface or in abandoned workings.

The fossicker is one who wanders about old diggings, armed with a knife and pan, and who seldom sinks or drives, but fossicks or searches about the old heaps of dirt, or in the bottoms of deserted shafts and drives, keen-eyed after unobserved gold.

意味（3）

(intransitive, British dialect) To be troublesome.

fossicks （ present singular third-person ）

fossicking （ participle present ）

fossicked （ participle past ）

fossicked （ past ）