英语词汇fossick的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	fossick
词源	fossick. Nineteenth-century Australian miners apparently coined this word meaning to search for gold by reworking waste piles of rock called washings, or to undermine another person’s diggings. The word seems to derive from fuss, or a dia- lect word for a fussy person. Over time it came to mean to rummage or to search around for anything, as in “I was fossick- ing among some old papers and found a letter from her.” Chiefly heard in Australia, the word has some currency in England and the U.S.
随便看	as cold as charity ascot as deaf as the mainmast as different as chalk and cheese as drunk as david-s sow as easy as shaking the drops off your john a serpent in one-s bosom as every schoolboy knows a shag on a rock ashes a shrimp short of a barbie asiatic hordes ask a silly question and you’ll get a silly answer ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country a slice off the old ham as long as grass grows and water runs as mad as ajax as maine goes so goes the nation a small cup of tea as much chance as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest as one man a son of a bitch-s son of a bitch a sorry sight asparagus

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