Verb
To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
Gebrauch- Ireland
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- dialectal
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Weitere Beispiele (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.
To potter.
Gebrauch- Ireland
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- dialectal
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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 [...]
Weitere Beispiele (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.
Substantiv
The act of ploutering, or splashing about.
Gebrauch- Ireland
- Northern-England
- Scotland
- dialectal