rummager
- noun
- /ˈrʌmɪdʒər/
:
rebuscador
- The rummager sifted through the trash to find any valuable items.
Examples
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This would keep it off my street/sidewalk and prevent the "rummagers" from opening my bags and leaving it all over the sidewalk.
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There has been a lot of dumpster diving, not just for the rummagers themselves, but on behalf of stay-at-homes and people too class proud to go digging.
Blog text (13) -
I'm a big rummager.
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Every Saturday, the rummager visited the local markets looking for discarded treasures.
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After the party, the rummager searched through the leftover food to find something to eat.
Synonyms
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5.5
A person who searches through trash for things to reuse or sell
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3.2
A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living
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5.3
A person or animal that looks for food in the wild
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9.9
A person who collects old clothes and scraps from streets to sell
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3.3
A person who collects trash and looks for things to use again or sell
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8.1
A person who often collects small old things other people discard
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8.2
A person who looks through garbage to learn about people's lives
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7.7
A person who carefully gathers small amounts of information or resources
A person who collects litter from places like beaches or parks
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rummager comes from the verb rummage, which gives a picture of turning things over to 'search', like someone looking through boxes or a messy room. So a rummager is a person or animal who looks through thrown-away or messy items to find something useful.