fossicker

English

Noun

fossicker (plural fossickers)

1. someone who fossicks.
   • 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 12

     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.

Derived terms

• fossicking