Plouter

Alternative forms

• pleiter, plotter

Origin

Probably from plout + -er.

Full definition of plouter

Verb

1. (Scotland, Ireland, northern England, dialect) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
• 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights:Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t'meadow.
2. (Scotland, Ireland, northern England, dialect) To potter.
• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:He prefers plottering about the house.
• 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 21: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 ….
• 1986, Michael Innes, Appleby & Ospreys:There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in.