root about

verb

Definitions

  1. To forage by poking the snout here and there.

  2. 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.
  3. 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