Usually means: Search around by nose, snout.
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  1. rootle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rootle: Merriam-Webster
  3. rootle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rootle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rootle: Vocabulary.com
  6. rootle: Wordnik
  7. rootle: Wiktionary
  8. rootle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rootle: Dictionary.com
  10. rootle: Rhymezone
  11. rootle: FreeDictionary.org
  12. rootle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. rootle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rootle: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rootle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rootle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout.
verb:  (of a person) to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.

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