fossick (third-person singular simple present fossicks, present participle fossicking, simple past and past participle fossicked)
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To elicit information; to ferret out. [from mid 19th c.]
(intransitive, Australia, Britain, New Zealand, specifically) To search for gems, gold, etc, on the surface or in abandoned workings.
(intransitive, British dialect) To be troublesome.
• (to search for gems, gold, etc.): noodle
Source: Wiktionary
Fos"sick, v. i. [Dial. E. fossick, fossuck, a troublesome person, fussick to potter over one's work, fussock to bustle about; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fuss.]
1. (Mining)
Definition: To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [Australia]
2. To search about; to rummage.
A man who has fossicked in nature's byways. D. Macdonald.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 June 2025
(noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business; “he is the owner of a chain of restaurants”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
