🍄 An edible fungus 🍫 A chocolate sweet 🧑‍🍳 To flavor food 🐕 To hunt truffles

to truffle

8.5

To search for rare underground mushrooms using trained dogs or pigs

verb
/ˈtrʌfəl/

: buscar trufas

Early in the morning, they truffled through the woods with their trained dog.

Examples

She truffles every autumn, hoping to find rare black truffles in the forest.
Farmers in the region have truffled for generations, passing down their knowledge.
I truffled yesterday.
Don't truffle here!
In the fall, she and her friends truffled through the oak trees, excited to find the hidden delicacy.
The experienced forager always truffles with a pig, knowing they can sniff out the best treasures in the ground.
Every year, locals truffled in the nearby forests, eager to discover the gourmet treats that lie beneath the soil.

Compounds

chocolate truffle

2 2.7

A small, rich chocolate sweet with a soft, creamy centre

false truffle

9.6

An underground fungus that looks like a real truffle but is a different kind

How Thorough

to truffle

8.5

to sniff out

Informal

15 4.0

forage

1 4.6

to look for

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

truffle infinitive

truffled past

truffled past participle

truffling present participle

truffles third person singular

Etymology

Truffle as a verb meaning 'to search for truffles' also comes from the noun truffle and refers to hunting these underground 'lumps', usually with trained dogs or pigs.