different between plouter vs flouter

English

Alternative forms

• pleiter, plotter, plowter

Etymology

Probably from plout +? -er.

Verb

plouter (third-person singular simple present plouters, present participle ploutering, simple past and past participle ploutered)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To splash around in something wet; to dabble.
2. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, dialect) To potter.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 21:

     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 […].

   • 1986, Michael Innes, Appleby & Ospreys:

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

Noun

plouter (plural plouters)

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

Anagrams

• Poulter, poulter

English

Etymology

flout +? -er

Noun

flouter (plural flouters)

1. A person who flouts.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• floutere, floutour, flowtour, floyter, floytur, fleuiter, fflouter

Etymology

From Old French flauteur.

Noun

flouter (plural flouters)

1. A musician who plays a flute; a flutist.

Related terms

• floute
• flouten

Descendants

• English: fluter

References

• “flout??r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.