rummage
verb
[ ˈrʌmɪdʒ ]
• search unsystematically and untidily through something.
• "he rummaged in his pocket for a handkerchief"
Similar:
search (through),
hunt through,
scrabble about in,
scrabble around in,
root about in,
root around in,
ferret (about) in,
ferret (around) in,
fish about in,
fish around in,
poke around in,
dig in,
grub about in,
delve in,
go through,
explore,
sift through,
rifle through,
scour,
ransack,
turn over,
rootle around in,
fossick through,
roust around in,
rummage
noun
• an unsystematic and untidy search.
• "open up the box and have a rummage around"
Origin:
late 15th century: 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 century) to the verb sense ‘make a search of (a vessel’).
