Examples
“May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers?”
The Guardian: Invasion of the body scanners | Victoria Coren
“My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend Ellen Willmott, the great Edwardian gardener.”
“A quick rootle through the Bod pre-1920 listings shows a mere 52 fifty-two?”
“He wrapped a quilt around my shoulders, put a plate containing one and a half stale bannocks in front of me, and went to rootle in the cupboard after soap, washcloth, and linen towels.”
“But if you rootle again I flog again: mind you that. ”
“The animals are not tempted to eat the snowdrops, but when they rootle, it splits up the clumps, so after a couple of years, by the time the bulbs have settled and increased in size, they can be harvested and sold.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“May the police now turn up on a whim and rootle around in our drawers? safeasmilk 2 October 2011 7:47AM”
“I think this is the first time I have seen rootle in print.”
“Did she squat over the Tiffany box or did her servants rootle in the toilet bowl?”
“My great-grandparents would be dismayed by the dereliction of what was once the kitchen garden, where our pigs now rootle under the few survivors of Milicent's dozens of espaliered fruit trees, but they would, I hope, be reassured by the survival of some of the plants they put in, gifts of their friend”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rootle’.
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[Open] There’s a word for that.
These are uncommon names for common things. They have definitions one wouldn’t be surprised to see in The Meaning of Liff (or its sequel, or attached to one of those bastard children thereof, snig...
epaulette, epaulet, ing, aboiement, aglet, googlegänger, maschalephidrosis, culicino, plurale tantum, hypergelast, skeuomorph, hey rube and 7 more...
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That Could Have Gone Better
dud, flop, fiasco, debacle, failure, learning experience, wash, doa, epic fail, bomb, crash and burn, bungle and 41 more...
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VVCle
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doodle, google, beetle, sheeple, steeple, poodle, noodle, needle, feeble, bamboozle, rootle, creeple and 11 more...
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Putting down roots
root beer, crinkleroot, root canal, root cellar, roothold, rootlet, rootworm, Stephen Root, square root, snakeroot, arrowroot, scrootch and 64 more...
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bilby's Words
pandemic, whirl, guffaw, ethereal, feisty, dunt, ephemeral, pule, flipergebet, prink, maunder, gammon and 1023 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Sound or sequence
dulcimer, borborygmi, ecchymosis, scrivener, fustilugs, zarf, bawdyhouse, googleable, archfiend, gymkhana, cuckoopint, pilpul and 104 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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hustle & bustle
-le verbs
gargle, dangle, dingle, bristle, cajole, girdle, doodle, stumble, wamble, jostle, hustle, bustle and 61 more...
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Verbz
pizazzy verbage
obtruded, rootle, pink, retrofit, photoshopped, transubstantiate, gazump, shambling
Tweets
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janejetson bunnies rootle the carpet Apr 19, 2010
trivet *loves* Oct 16, 2008
frogapplause Rootin' tootin' rootler. Oct 16, 2008
bilby I'm a desert rootler. I highly recommend it. Oct 16, 2008
mollusque And then the chimps relaxed as the large dark shape of a bushpig appeared, rootling his way through the undergrowth.
--Jane Goodall, 2000, Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe, p. 98
Oct 16, 2008
chained_bear My dog does this in blankets. Oct 16, 2008
frogapplause rootleing? rootling? Oct 16, 2008
mollusque Hence the libraries and laboratories; the observatories; the splendid equipment of costly and delicate instruments which now stands on glass shelves, where centuries ago the grass waved and the swine rootled.
--Virginia Woolf, 1929, A Room of One's Own Nov 17, 2007