plouter

The act of ploutering, or splashing about.

Noun

Probably from *plout + -er.

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...
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! - 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter IX, in Wuthering...
- [O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...] - 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 703:
- So one night after they had all had supper in the kitchen and old Sinclair had gone pleitering out to the byres, old Mistress Sinclair had up and nodded to Kirsty […]. - 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots...