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potterer|ˈpɒtərə(r)| [f. potter v. + -er1.] One who potters; one who works at things in a feeble, unsystematic, or ineffectual way; one who potters about: see the verb.
1862Burton Bk. Hunter 105 A mere wayward potterer, picking up curiosities by the way for his own private individual museum. 1867― Hist. Scot. I. xi. 404 That Robertson did not throw himself into our early history, but left it to a body of dreary potterers, is the more to be regretted. 1883A. Forbes in Fortn. Rev. 1 Nov. 664 He was not free from the imputation of being a potterer. |