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plouter

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Probably from *plout + -er.

verb plouters · ploutering · ploutered · pleiter · plotter

Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal To splash around in something wet; to dabble. As I did not want to plowter about any more in the drizzle and the dark, I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun, wondering where Vixen had got to, and where I might be.
Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal To potter. He's left th' yate ut t' full swing, and miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs uh corn, un plottered through, raight o'er intuh t' meadow!

noun plouters · pleiter · plotter · plowter

Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, dialectal The act of ploutering, or splashing about.

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@misc{plouter_2026,
  title = {plouter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plouter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}