rootches

Verb

rootch (third-person singular simple present rootches, present participle rootching, simple past and past participle rootched)

1. (Pennsylvania, US, especially, informal) To root or rummage around (in search of something).
   • Our model house-keeper minded closely her own business, never moving about or rootching around in what did not concern her. She was an other-guess character — an other-guess sort of person, as Goldsmith would have said.1870, American Educational Monthly, page 332