plouter
/ˈplaʊtə
/verb [no object] dialect
Dabble or flounder in water or mud: an albatross chick was ploutering about off the coast...
- The poems are on the rituals of children, ploutering in their rubber boots through "the shallow Pacific rain pools".
- 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.
Origin
Early 19th century: probably from plout 'to plunge or submerge' + -er3.
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