[PW] ?French Words for "Scavenger"?

[Mary McGavick]

Hi,
How about bricoleur...."A person who engages in bricolage is a
bricoleur: someone who invents his or her own strategies for using
existing materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricolage

It's not what the patron asked for, but may be what they want.

Mary McGavick
PL Of Mount Vernon & Knox County, Ohio

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Regier, Willis Goth
<wregier at uillinois.edu> wrote:
> This from Professor Warren Motte (French, U of Colorado):
>
> I would say "fouilleur" or "fouineur," but those words can have other meanings as well, and are very context-bound.
>
> Willis G. Regier
> U of Illinois
>
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>
> Have a patron who would like to know French words for
> "scavenger."  Our in-house
> dictionaries show "faiseur de poubelles," and
> "recuperateur."  However my
> questioner is looking for a different French term than those --- perhaps a
> slang word. Can anyone out there help?
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sam Shipley
>  Dodge City Public Library
>  iyam at trails.net
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