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1783 G. White Jrnl. 23 Oct. (1970) 232 Two truflers came with their dogs to hunt our hangers, & beechen woods.

1860 Hampshire Advertiser 2 June (Suppl.) 2/3 (advt.) Found, a Truffler bitch.

1863 Once a Week 12 Sept. 319/1 The truffler is accompanied everywhere in his rambles by his dogs, or, rather, follows the little animals.

1894 Eng. Illustr. Mag. 11 159/1 The staff..[has] two claws which enable the truffler to drag away..obstructions.

1938 Times 22 Dec. 15/7 The village of Winterslow (sometimes described as the headquarters of English truffling) was said to contain at least 10 trufflers.

1986 Illustr. London News 29 Mar. 52/3 Sows, according to a scientific theory.., make better trufflers than male pigs because the smell of the truffles includes an element of the male sexual odour.

2013 G. Bitney Provence je T'aime iv. 45 Experienced trufflers know the land so well they have secret truffling areas to return to each winter.

1915 Cosmopolitan Nov. 723 Mr. Merwin has coined a new word to fit a metropolitan type of human beings... ‘Trufflers’ he calls them They are hunters for delicacies..and they hunt selfishly and constantly.

1975 J. Updike Month of Sundays ii. 16 This pleasure, though alloyed, was deep, deeper than the half-believer's masochism, deeper than my truffler's hunger for secrets.

1997 D. Howarth Images of Rule viii. 279 Prynne had been a successful barrister but he was unsurpassed as a truffler for conspiracies.

2015 Independent (Nexis) 14 May Attlee is an extraordinary truffler of facts.