different between potter vs plotter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pottere, from late Old English pottere (“potter”), equivalent to pot +? -er, influenced by Old French potier (“potter”). More at pot. Displaced Old English crocwyrhta (“crock-wright”).

Noun

potter (plural potters)

1. One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, vol. 92, p. 453,

     shoemakers, weavers, potters, bronzeworkers who produced and purveyed the articles necessary for daily life.

2. One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. One who hawks crockery or earthenware.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)

5. The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
6. The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.

Synonyms

• (Pseudemys rubriventris): northern red-bellied cooter
• (maker of ceramics): ceramicist

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• potter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• (Biblical) Bratcher, Dennis Bratcher (2006), The Potter, The Voice CRI/Voice Institute[1]

Etymology 2

Frequentative of pote, equivalent to pote +? -er. Cognate with Dutch poteren, peuteren (“to poke, pry, search”).

Alternative forms

• putter, pouter, pudder, pother

Verb

potter (third-person singular simple present potters, present participle pottering, simple past and past participle pottered)

1. (Britain) To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
2. (Britain) To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
3. (obsolete) To poke repeatedly.

Derived terms

• potter about
• potter around

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

potter m or f

1. indefinite plural of potte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

potter f

1. indefinite plural of potte

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Etymology 1

plot +? -er

Noun

plotter (plural plotters)

1. A person who plots.
2. (computing) An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
3. (navigation) An instrument used to mark or find the position of a vessel on a chart.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

plotter (third-person singular simple present plotters, present participle plottering, simple past and past participle plottered)

1. Alternative form of plouter

Anagrams

• pelt rot, portlet

French

Verb

plotter

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of peloter

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plotter

1. present of plotte