potter about
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I like to relax pottering about the house doing this and that at the weekends."
- "So after "pottering about" and "daudling" a little, we moved up State Street, still attended by the same honorary retinue."
- "Each man helps himself, potters about the little place, and lounges on the bed with perfect freedom, as if in the habit of doing the same thing nightly, and so periodically reimbursed the landlord in a lump sum."
- "Slowly the hours crawled. His father got up; he heard him pottering about."
- ""I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that.""
- "Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties."
Usage
- British usage