Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plouter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: plouter
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To splash around in something wet; to dabble.

verb

noun

The act of ploutering, or splashing about.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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!"
"[O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...]"
"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 […]."
"There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in."

Etymology

Probably from *plout + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: er

Inflected Forms

plouters (present, singular) ploutering (participle, present) ploutered (participle, past) ploutered (past) pleiter (alternative) plotter (alternative) plowter (alternative) plouters (plural)

Questions

What does plouter mean?: To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
Where does plouter come from?: Probably from *plout + -er.

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