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plouter, v. Chiefly Sc.|ˈplaʊtə(r)|
Also plowter, plotter.
[app. frequentative of plout v.
There are many similar dialect forms, as ploiter, plodder, plother: see Eng. Dial. Dict. Cf. also Du. ploeteren, LG. pludern, plûdern to splash in water, bathe with splashing.]
intr. To flounder or move about with splashing in water or mire; to dabble or work in anything wet or dirty; also, to work ineffectually, to potter.
1808Jamieson, Plouter, to make a noise among water,..to be engaged in any wet and dirty work. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvii. (1859) 478, I found a score of Crusanos all ploutering in the water. 1834J. Wilson in J. Hamilton Mem. v. (1859) 164 We supped on our arrival at Inverness, after ploutering up stairs and sweeping the dust out of our eyes. 1847E. Brontë Wuthering Heights ix, Miss's pony has trodden down two rigs o' corn, and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow. 1861G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 250 He..saw them plowthering about in the moss-hags as if they had been looking for a wounded stag. 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 297 Your mither has dune naething but plowter aboot the hoose.
Hence ˈploutering vbl. n., also ˈplouter n., the action of this verb, floundering in water; splashing, the sound of splashing.
1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ball. I. 294 For mony a foul weary plouter She'd cost him through gutters and glaur. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 142 Sometimes playin plouter into a wat place up to the oxters. 1862Napier Life Dundee II. 68 There was so much petting and plunging, praying and ploutering, piking in, and pulling out. 1893Stevenson Catriona xiv. 152 The sea was extremely little, but there went a hollow plowter round the base of it [the Bass]. |