plouter — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To splash around in something wet; to dabble.

   الاستعمال

   • Ireland
   • Northern-England
   • Scotland
   • dialectal

   أمثلة

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   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.

2. To potter.

   الاستعمال

   • Ireland
   • Northern-England
   • Scotland
   • dialectal

   أمثلة

   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 [...]

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   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.

اسم

1. The act of ploutering, or splashing about.

   الاستعمال

   • Ireland
   • Northern-England
   • Scotland
   • dialectal