English

Alternative forms

• pleiter, plotter, plowter

Verb

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

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.

Noun

plouter ‎(plural plouters)

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