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- noun Searching for, and digging up
truffles
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Examples
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I remember the Poose "truffling" for snacks early in the morning when he was a tiny thing.
Needful Things 2009
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I have a truffler myself … he just turned one and I secretly hope he keeps truffling on for a bit longer …
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I remember the Poose “truffling” for snacks early in the morning when he was a tiny thing.
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He fussed, breathing heavily through a stuffy nose, truffling for the breast and then pushing it away.
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His truffling around does wake me up, but not very much.
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And so while the festival offers the tastings and truffle meals and wine pairings that one would expect, it also offers a two-day intensive for training truffle dogs, like this Lagotto Romagnolo, the Italian dog bred for truffling, who commuted from Blackberry Farm in Tennessee to teach neophyte pooches how to sniff and dig the tubers.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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I have a truffler myself...he just turned one and I secretly hope he keeps truffling on for a bit longer...
Needful Things 2009
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He fussed, breathing heavily through a stuffy nose, truffling for the breast and then pushing it away.
Archive 2008-09-28 2008
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He fussed, breathing heavily through a stuffy nose, truffling for the breast and then pushing it away.
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Which is part of the problem, actually - I'm so alert to his presence - to his gurgling and truffling for boob, to his squirming and mild fussing - that I never actually sleep, unless it overtakes me unexpectedly.
Endymion's Sleep 2008
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