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murr-ma
Searching for something in the water with your feet. Feeling along a riverbed or shallows with your soles and toes, your eyes useless, your feet doing the seeing. “We murr-ma’d across the shallows for an hour before someone’s toe found the dropped knife.” “He waded out to murr-ma along the gravel bar, hunting the sunglasses the river took at noon.”
Etymology
Wagiman language, spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia. The word names a specific bodily relationship to water.