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fossicker

fossicker noun: someone who fossicks.

Noun

fossicker (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

Forms of fossicker

pluralfossickers

Origin of fossicker

From fossick + -er.

Words formed from fossicker

Questions about fossicker

What does fossicker mean?
Fossicker means someone who fossicks.
What part of speech is fossicker?
Fossicker is a noun.
What is the plural of fossicker?
The plural of fossicker is fossickers.

Words near fossicker in the dictionary

  1. fosseways
  2. Fossey
  3. Fosseys
  4. fossick
  5. fossicked
  6. fossicker
  7. fossickers
  8. fossicking
  9. fossickings
  10. fossicks
  11. FOSSie

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