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potter1(North American putter) verb ˈpɒtəˈpɑdər [no object]1Occupy oneself in a desultory but pleasant way. I'm quite happy just to potter about by myself here 我就喜欢一个人在这儿东摸摸西弄弄。 Example sentencesExamples - We tracked down a house in Malvern where one of them used to live, then went to St Kilda Cemetery to potter about among the graves.
- Instead, the rooftop gardener can putter around doing a little staking and tying here, a little dead-heading of flowers there.
- I have to have somewhere that I can potter about in - a sanctuary.
- He had more confidence to get about and could do a lot more - it allowed him to potter about in the house, in the garden and the greenhouse.
- I putter around my house all night, taking out trash, yada yada.
- Across the manicured yard a couple of workers putter around the porch.
- I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
- So the gang started puttering around with a car recovery system.
- Any chance of running some good projects for those of us who putter around in the basement during the winter months?
- From April onwards, we potter about outside, spotting gaps where we might plant another beautiful specimen,
- We'd putter around her apartment complex, meeting the same friends of hers that I met each time before.
- With that she wandered back to the kitchen, leaving me to putter around with Robert's system.
- He is ‘not really into’ nightclubs and is looking for a quiet house ‘with a nice garden, somewhere to potter about like the old boy I am’.
- Surely only childishness can induce you to putter around with a computer at a time-critical moment of family crisis, rather than dialing emergency services?
- I rush upstairs, turn on the taps and potter about a bit in my dressing gown until the harsh, loud tone of the telephone interrupts me.
- What that really means is that I'm going to potter about with my templates and make lots of unnecessary changes to indulge my need to do something other than study.
- You can hike through the forest or along deserted beaches, or potter about in small boats or canoes.
- I sigh in exasperation when they putter around and block the aisles.
- The employees manning these centres are trained to remain unobtrusive and encourage the visitors to potter about, handling the products on display.
- So will Marie now close the front door of her home and put on her slippers and potter about the house, now she has mornings on her hands.
Synonyms do nothing much, amuse oneself, tinker about/around, fiddle about/around, footle about/around, do odd jobs informal mess about/around, piddle about/around, puddle about/around British informal muck about/around, fanny about/around North American informal putter about/around, lollygag - 1.1with adverbial of direction Move or go in a casual, unhurried way.
闲逛，闲荡 I might potter into Nice for the day 我可能去尼斯逛一天。 Example sentencesExamples - Here he comes, puttering up in his little soapbox derby car with its duck horn.
- She stood up once the van puttered away and walked back inside.
- He putters to a piano whilst the band provide gentle harmonies around him.
- I was puttering along happily, doing about 28 mph.
- I trudged to my distant little-green-car and puttered over to Kilbirnie, sun all golden and slanty at my back.
- So they came and stayed for a little bit, and then puttered off again.
- As you putter across the 200 yard channel in the old diesel ferry, the lines of pinpoint lights become knee-high lamps lining the stone pathways.
- I think it is likely to be all about exploration first, puttering around Lincolnshire in the little blue Ford.
- After opening the funky present from his housemate Meg, he potters off to the shower.
- All was well, and we puttered down the street, at a snails pace (not quite literally) due to all the traffic.
- At the end I was ready to be alone for a while, so I walked down through the park to Haight Street and slowly puttered along all afternoon, shopping.
- Still we puttered on, with the driver himself stopping from time to time asking passers-by on the road, ‘Ashram?’
- Last night after I'd done some ferocious blogging and blog-surfing I began to potter home.
- She potters from the gates of The House, in its evil-grey uniform, and peers up and down the street.
- My parents, as they potter through Camberwell and snooty suburbs walking their dog, chat away with locals and the subject often comes up.
- People are just wandering to church in their purple nylon jackets, or pottering along in rackety Skodas.
- And after a few pints, I've been known to potter home on it, slow and cautious and wobbly.
- By the time we putter slowly down the Sound of Jura, the clouds have cleared and the day has revealed itself to be a classic.
- A few minutes passed, and the shuttle puttered past most of the other vessels, who gave it readings and signals to verify its presence and crew.
Synonyms amble, wander, meander, stroll, saunter, maunder informal mosey, tootle, toddle British informal mooch, bimble North American informal putter
noun ˈpɒtə An act or period of occupying oneself in a desultory but pleasant way. an afternoon's potter through the rooms and possessions of the rich 在豪富的房子和藏品中消磨一个下午。
Derivativesnoun I have no chance of getting an allotment, but I'm more of a potterer than a digger, so that doesn't bother me. Example sentencesExamples - He doesn't go far, a bit of a potterer if you like.
- I've never been much of a potterer but I've done some amount of pottering about over the last few days!
OriginMid 17th century (in the sense 'poke repeatedly'): frequentative of dialect pote 'to push, kick, or poke' of unknown origin. Rhymesblotter, cotta, cottar, dotter, gotta, hotter, jotter, knotter, otter, pelota, plotter, ricotta, rotter, spotter, squatter, terracotta, totter, trotter noun ˈpɒtəˈpɑdər A person who makes ceramic ware. 陶工，制陶工人 Example sentencesExamples - These laborers included samurai, cooks, sake brewers, potters, printers, tailors, wood workers, and one hairdresser.
- Following Meissen and Sèvres products, British potters began to use china clay or kaolin, when in 1768 William Cookworthy, a Plymouth chemist, proved the potential of the kaolin reserves of Cornwall.
- There are also a small number of merchants in Oromo society, as well as weavers, goldsmiths, potters, and woodworkers.
- This tendency was preserved during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, when the town was the center of commerce, crafts, culture, goldsmiths, potters, tanners, and skilled weavers.
- Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers, dyers, jewelers, and bakers.
- In other words, potters made the porcelain netsuke, and lacquerers produced the lacquer netsuke.
- In rural areas Hindus perform much of the traditional craft production of items for everyday life; caste groups include weavers, potters, iron and gold smiths, and carpenters.
- Architects, painters, potters and other craftsman and artists often accompanied the monks and it was these people who constructed the great temples of Japan.
- Soon, he was attracted to clay and turned to designer pottery, producing earthenware with the assistance of local potters from a studio in Kottayam district.
- It is this focus that makes him not just a studio potter, but a ceramicist of note.
- Such workers - for the most part blacksmiths, weavers, and potters - traditionally constituted a distinct class, almost a separate caste.
- This vase illustrates the aesthetic lying behind the surviving decorated pottery, as potters evoked the effect of gold on silver in making their wares red and black.
- It has been my experience, in the art-show world, at least, that the word ‘clay,’ when used to describe this polymer material, has offended and angered many potters and ceramicists.
- By mid-century there were five potteries there, and a number of potters had migrated west to establish their own kilns.
- Weavers, potters, storytellers, jewellery-makers, woodworkers and ironsmiths are still part of the village community.
- The project, now in its third year, uses a core of eight ceramic artists who are joined by additional potters, some established and others just emerging.
- Those who make their living as blacksmiths, weavers, potters, or musicians are looked upon with some disfavor and suspicion.
- Philostratus indeed alludes to this: the new fire, he says, is distributed especially ‘to the craftsmen who have to do with fire’, i.e. to potters and blacksmiths.
- Armed with skills such as metalworking and pottery making, the newly emancipated Texans flourished as weavers, potters, blacksmiths, masons and carpenters.
- He is also helping Kenyan potters export their wares to the US.
OriginLate Old English pottere (see pot1, -er1). verbˈpädərˈpɑdər British another term for putter Example sentencesExamples - Normally I potter about my small world, enjoying the fruits of my labours, happy as the days are long.
- For people with dementia wandering may well be pottering with a purpose a desire to use up excess energy, to check out an unusual aspect of the local environment, or simply to seek fresh air.
- The latter is a whizz-fast futuristic racer, the former a calm, abstract, flight-game where you potter about flying jetpacks, autogyros, and parachutes.
- At only 10m to the seabed and rising to within a metre or two of the surface, it provides an ideal depth to potter about following a first dive on one of the deeper Channel wrecks.
- While I'm puttering around playing with words, other people are investing and accumulating and feathering their nests and compounding their interest.
- The little blue Ford and I have spent hours puttering along, following our fancy, taking turns at random, tracing a crazy quilt pattern across this landscape and others.
- Days were filled with quietude, evenings spent pottering around in the garden and topped off with a stroll to the neighbour's for dinner and some piano playing.
- Guiseppe has told me that he caught you poking sadly about at what remains of the old vegetable garden, so if you wish you may potter about in it to your heart's content.
- I'll need to do a full-scale shop on Monday but, for the weekend, I'm happy to stay home, pottering from one pleasant task to another.
OriginMid 17th century: (in the sense ‘poke repeatedly’): frequentative of dialect pote ‘to push, kick, or poke’ of unknown origin. nounˈpädərˈpɑdər A person who makes pottery. 陶工，制陶工人 Example sentencesExamples - Such workers - for the most part blacksmiths, weavers, and potters - traditionally constituted a distinct class, almost a separate caste.
- In other words, potters made the porcelain netsuke, and lacquerers produced the lacquer netsuke.
- Those who make their living as blacksmiths, weavers, potters, or musicians are looked upon with some disfavor and suspicion.
- The project, now in its third year, uses a core of eight ceramic artists who are joined by additional potters, some established and others just emerging.
- These laborers included samurai, cooks, sake brewers, potters, printers, tailors, wood workers, and one hairdresser.
- Philostratus indeed alludes to this: the new fire, he says, is distributed especially ‘to the craftsmen who have to do with fire’, i.e. to potters and blacksmiths.
- By mid-century there were five potteries there, and a number of potters had migrated west to establish their own kilns.
- Different streets were allotted for different professions such as potters, weavers, dyers, jewelers, and bakers.
- This vase illustrates the aesthetic lying behind the surviving decorated pottery, as potters evoked the effect of gold on silver in making their wares red and black.
- Following Meissen and Sèvres products, British potters began to use china clay or kaolin, when in 1768 William Cookworthy, a Plymouth chemist, proved the potential of the kaolin reserves of Cornwall.
- It has been my experience, in the art-show world, at least, that the word ‘clay,’ when used to describe this polymer material, has offended and angered many potters and ceramicists.
- He is also helping Kenyan potters export their wares to the US.
- In rural areas Hindus perform much of the traditional craft production of items for everyday life; caste groups include weavers, potters, iron and gold smiths, and carpenters.
- Architects, painters, potters and other craftsman and artists often accompanied the monks and it was these people who constructed the great temples of Japan.
- Soon, he was attracted to clay and turned to designer pottery, producing earthenware with the assistance of local potters from a studio in Kottayam district.
- This tendency was preserved during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, when the town was the center of commerce, crafts, culture, goldsmiths, potters, tanners, and skilled weavers.
- It is this focus that makes him not just a studio potter, but a ceramicist of note.
- There are also a small number of merchants in Oromo society, as well as weavers, goldsmiths, potters, and woodworkers.
- Armed with skills such as metalworking and pottery making, the newly emancipated Texans flourished as weavers, potters, blacksmiths, masons and carpenters.
- Weavers, potters, storytellers, jewellery-makers, woodworkers and ironsmiths are still part of the village community.
OriginLate Old English pottere (see pot, -er). |