Meaning of plouter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal
2. To potter.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal

Examples

“As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.”

“He's left th' yate ut t' full swing, and miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t' meadow!”

“[O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...]”

“So one night after they had all had supper in the kitchen and old Sinclair had gone pleitering out to the byres, old Mistress Sinclair had up and nodded to Kirsty […].”

“There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in.”

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