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To rootle is to look for something by pushing other things out of the way — turning over papers, clothes, soil, or the stuff in a bag. It is a busy, slightly messy search, not a careful one. The picture comes from a pig: pigs rootle in the dirt with their noses, looking for food. People then used the same word for a person digging through a drawer. Though actually, this is mainly British, and it already sounds a little old-fashioned or playful; American English is more likely to say rummage or root around. You will meet it in stories more than in street talk.
翻找、拱著找（帶一點「翻箱倒櫃」、把東西翻亂的感覺）
組成root (the old verb meaning 'to dig', like a pig with its nose) + -le (a small ending that means the action keeps happening again and again).
同家族的字
- rootthe verb root, 'to dig or turn things over looking for something'
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rootleverb/ˈɹuːtəl/
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to dig into the ground, with the snout.
- Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.
- Removing internal fences allowed the wild Exmoor ponies and Tamworth pigs he introduced to browse and rootle over large distances, their disruptions creating habitats for other animals and plants.
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to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.
- 'There's a tin of cocoa in my study somewhere,' Perowne shouted after him. 'Rootle round till you find it, and take it up.'
- Bathed and changed, she rootled out Lambie from the bottom of her wardrobe.'
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。