verb

• (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
  "I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place."
• (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
  "[T]he honorable member went to the Railway department, and fossicked about for information, and he found, forsooth, that there had been a little rise in the salary of a son of a member of the House."
• (intransitive, Australia, British, New Zealand) To search for something; to rummage.
  "The "fossicker" is one who wanders about old diggings, armed with a knife and pan, and who seldom sinks or drives, but "fossicks" or searches about the old heaps of dirt, or in the bottoms of deserted shafts and drives, keen-eyed after unobserved gold."
• (intransitive, British, dialect) To be troublesome.