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plouter en · NOUN

Etymology

Probably from *plout + -er.

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) The act of ploutering, or splashing about.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
plotter alternative lexicographic
plouters Number=Plur lexicographic
pleiter alternative lexicographic
plowter alternative lexicographic

plouter en · VERB

Etymology

Probably from *plout + -er.

Meanings

  1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
    • 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. 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Servants of the Queen”, in The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC, page 187:
  2. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal) To potter.
    • There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in. 1986, Michael Innes, Appleby & Ospreys:
    • 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 […]. 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 21:
    • 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! 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 187:
    • [O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...] 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 703:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
plouters Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
ploutering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
plotter alternative lexicographic
ploutered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
ploutered Tense=Past lexicographic
pleiter alternative lexicographic
plowter alternative lexicographic