0 present participle of ferret
1 to search for something by moving things around with your hands, especially in a drawer, bag, or other closed space:
We do not need a wise man, however wise he may be, ferreting among the facts.
There are market research organisations which are ferreting around and asking daft questions about us.
We are all deeply indebted to him for the ferreting that he has done over a considerable period.
It explicitly does not mean ferreting through people's private e-mails or steaming open their post.
It seems to me that that perpetual ferreting around, digging and sniffing confirms that direct benefit is not easily proven.
There is no question of ferreting out anything.
If it were used, it should be dealt with sternly, but despite all the ferreting of the journalists, no violence was ever established.
That is the worst kind of scaremongering—ferreting around for party political advantage in the sewer of politics.
