rummage
noun/ˈrʌmɪdʒ/
/ˈrʌmɪdʒ/
[singular]- the act of looking for something among a group of other objects in a way that makes them untidy
- Have a rummage around in the drawer and see if you can find a pen.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryRummage is used before these nouns:- sale
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French arrumage, from arrumer ‘stow (in a hold)’, from Middle Dutch ruim ‘room’. In early use the word referred to the arranging of items such as casks in the hold of a ship, giving rise (early 17th cent.) to the verb sense ‘make a search of (a vessel)’.
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