In Colombia, it is the same as scavenging or rummage is, make a living anyway, what is. Fight, struggle, work hard. For many farmers, it is common to also use "osear", "hozear" or "hocear" in reference to the bears (by that s) delve (they probed or nose) diapers with its trunk in search of honey, so osear is also behaving like a bear. Also, to use it to mean that some animals nose and sifted meal between land or garbage with the snout (therefore with h & c, which would be synonymous with hociquear), as a pig could for example.
