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Dig, pig-style
Answer for the clue "Dig, pig-style ", 6 letters:
rootle
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Word definitions for rootle in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout , root ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout
Usage examples of rootle.
Swearing to himself and wreathed in cobwebs he rootled through the coalhole until he found a quarter-full tin of the paint that had been flown in from Germany and used for the mutilated white wall.
I sniffed and rootled around down there for at least ten minutes, and got in several good licks and kisses.
We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that like cabbaging Cincinnatus the grand old gardener was saving daylight under his redwoodtree one sultry sabbath afternoon, Hag Chivychas Eve, in prefall paradise peace by following his plough for rootles in the rere garden of mobhouse, ye olde marine hotel,when royalty was announced by runner to have been pleased to have halted itself on the highroad along which a leisureloving dogfox had cast followed, also at walking pace, by a lady pack of cocker spaniels.