plouter

present singular third person plouters · participle present ploutering · participle past ploutered · past ploutered · alternative pleiter · alternative plotter · alternative plowter

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlanddialectalTo 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. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlanddialectalTo potter.

   [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

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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!

   1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 187

   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

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

   1986, Michael Innes, Appleby & Ospreys

plural plouters · alternative pleiter · alternative plotter · alternative plowter

1. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlanddialectalThe act of ploutering, or splashing about.