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plouter

plouter verb: to splash around in something wet; to dabble.

Verb

plouter (third-person singular simple present plouters, present participle ploutering, simple past and past participle ploutered)

  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.
    • 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

Noun

plouter (plural plouters)

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

Forms of plouter

Verb
third-person singular presentplouters
present participleploutering
past participleploutered
pastploutered
alternative formpleiter
alternative formplotter
alternative formplowter
Noun
pluralplouters

Origin of plouter

Probably from *plout + -er.

Questions about plouter

What does plouter mean?
Plouter means to splash around in something wet; to dabble.
What part of speech is plouter?
Plouter can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of plouter?
The past tense of plouter is ploutered.

Words near plouter in the dictionary

  1. Plourde
  2. Plourdes
  3. plousiocracy
  4. ploussard
  5. ploussards
  6. plouter
  7. ploutered
  8. ploutering
  9. plouters
  10. ploutocracy
  11. ploutocrat

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