plouter

verb

1. (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.”

2. (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!”

   “[O]f course he prefers plottering about the house [...]”

   “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 […].”

   “There's certainly a small boat that people plouter about in.”

noun

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, dialectal)The act of ploutering, or splashing about.