root about
verbDefinitions
To forage by poking the snout here and there.
To search for something in a similar manner.
- Besides, the father would not give him leave to go, for he said it was no use his trying, who had so little sense; all he could do was to sit in a corner on the hearth, like a cat, rooting about in the ashes and cutting chips.
To rummage
To rummage; to look for something in a somewhat aimless fashion.
- I'm rooting about for ideas for a novel
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for root about. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA