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Pouter vs Plouter - What's the difference?

pouter | plouter |

As a noun pouter

is a person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss.

As a verb plouter is

(scotland|ireland|northern england|dialect) to splash around in something wet; to dabble.

pouter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who habitually pouts; a sourpuss
  • A breed of pigeon that inflates its crop

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    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.