• Rootle

    Full definition of rootle

    Verb

    1. (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout
      • 1929, Virginia Woolf, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11Once, 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.
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