Dabble or flounder in water or mud.
an albatross chick was ploutering about off the coast
Example sentencesExamples
- The poems are on the rituals of children, ploutering in their rubber boots through "the shallow Pacific rain pools".
- I spent a long childhood ploutering in the river's shallows.
- Feeding the animals can mean ploutering around in inches of mud.
- They would not have him ploutering through any more mire and flood.
- He pushes off from the shores of a blanketed Britain to plouter about in the North Sea.