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Plouter vs Plotter - What's the difference?

plouter | plotter |

As verbs the difference between plouter and plotter

is that plouter is (scotland|ireland|northern england|dialect) to splash around in something wet; to dabble while plotter is .

As a noun plotter is

a person who plots.

plouter

English

Alternative forms

*pleiter, plotter

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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 :
    • 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.

    • plotter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who plots.
  • (computing) an output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.

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    Verb

    (en verb)
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