Plouter vs Flouter - What's the difference?
plouter | flouter |
(Scotland, Ireland, northern England, dialect) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
*1847 , , Wuthering Heights :
*:Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t'meadow.
(Scotland, Ireland, northern England, dialect) To potter.
*1922 , (James Joyce), Ulysses :
*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.
As a verb plouter
is (scotland|ireland|northern england|dialect) to splash around in something wet; to dabble.As a noun flouter is
a person who flouts.plouter
English
Alternative forms
*pleiter, plotterVerb
(en verb)- He prefers plottering about the house.