furtle

A cursory examination of the contents or details of something.

Noun

  1. A cursory examination of the contents or details of something.
    • Then he looked back at his glossy, had a furtle with something in his pocket, and then looked back at me. - 2005, Chloe Richards, Oops!, →ISBN, page 226:
    • “Let me just have a quick furtle.” He dug his hand elbow-deep into the bag. - 2008, Iain M. Banks, chapter 8, in Matter, →ISBN:
    • It was so unusual that I went for another furtle in the 1881 census to find her family. - 2010, Stanley Challenger Graham, Stanley's View, Volume 6, →ISBN:

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furtles

Verb

  1. To gently delve; to probe or rummage tentatively.
    • A burly mechanic wheeled in a bright yellow battery charger on a trolley, furtled under the bonnet and gave the car the full benefit of its volts. - 2005, Carole Matthews, You Drive Me Crazy, →ISBN:
    • Needham was already half-heartedly furtling about in the kitchen, opening cupboards without bothering to search them, letting his left hand trail over objects as though he was thinking with his fleshy fingers - 2008,...
    • Furtling amongst the loose change and accumulated junk, he finally found what he was looking for. - 2011, Mark R. Faulkner, Flux, →ISBN, page 4:

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