potter
Meanings
Plural: potters
Noun
- a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln
- One who makes pots and other ceramic wares.
- One who places flowers or other plants inside their pots.
- One who pots meats or other eatables.
- One who hawks crockery or earthenware.
- The red-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys rubriventris (species of turtle).
- The chicken turtle, Deirochelys reticularia.
Verb
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
- work lightly
- "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"
- move around aimlessly
- To act in a vague or unmotivated way; to fuss about with unimportant things.
- To move slowly or aimlessly. (Often potter about, potter around.)
- To poke repeatedly.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English pottere, from Old English pottere (“potter”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *pottārī (“pot-maker”), equivalent to pot + -er. Influenced by Anglo-Norman poter, Old French potier (“potter”). Cognate with Dutch potter (“potter”), German Low German Pötter, Pütter (“potter”). Displaced Old English synonyms lāmwyrhta (“a worker in clay, potter”, literally “loam-worker”), tiġelwyrhta (“brickmaker, potter”, literally “tile-worker”), crocwyrhta (“crocker, potter”, literally “crock-worker”).
Synonyms
ceramicist, ceramist, mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, northern red-bellied cooter, potter around, putter, putter around, thrower, tinker
Scrabble Score: 8
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