fossicker

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noun

Someone who fossicks.

Scrabble 18
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Meanings

nounfossicker (plural fossickers)

plural fossickers

  1. Someone who fossicks.

    There was also, I think, brisk trafficking in metaphysics around the traps since it was widely believed that opal was found not by geologists, by fossickers, but by the dedicated, the single-minded, the pure in heart.

    1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 12

Origin

From fossick + -er.

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APA

fossicker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fossicker

MLA

“fossicker.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fossicker. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fossicker,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fossicker.

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