rummager Definition

rummage
verb rummaged, rummaging

tr & intr
1. To search messily through (a collection of things, a cupboard, etc).

Thesaurus: ransack, root, poke around, delve, rout, hunt, scour, turn inside out.
Form: rummage through something (usually)
intr
2. To search.

Example: rummage around for a pen
Form: rummage about (usually)
Form: rummage around

noun

1. A search.
2. Things found by rummaging, especially (N Amer) jumble.

Derivative: rummager
noun

Etymology: 16c: from French arrumage stowing of cargo on a ship.