plout

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And while we lay in the frozen cold of the pool, the water tinkled and gurgled and laughed, and went plout-plout at my knees, as though it was a hot summer day and we were stooping to drink We must just lie here like rats," whispered the smuggler, and I held my chin to stop the chattering of my teeth, "for this burn gets narrower than a sheep drain.

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  1. To wade or flounder through water or mire. [North. Eng. and Scotch.]
  2. Same as plot. [Scots.]
  3. To fall with a splash or plump; plunge or splash in water. [Prov. Eng.] N. E. D.
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  • And while we lay in the frozen cold of the pool, the water tinkled and gurgled and laughed, and went plout-plout at my knees, as though it was a hot summer day and we were stooping to drink We must just lie here like rats," whispered the smuggler, and I held my chin to stop the chattering of my teeth, "for this burn gets narrower than a sheep drain. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • And while we lay in the frozen cold of the pool, the water tinkled and gurgled and laughed, and went plout-plout at my knees, as though it was a hot summer day and we were stooping to drink. —  The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • Years ago, when I was a lad, she had on a summer been sewing with a kinswoman in Car-lunnan, the mill croft beside a linn of the river, where the salmon plout in a most wonderful profusion, and I had gone at morning to the hill to watch her pass up and down in the garden of the mill, or feed the pigeons at the round doo-cot, content (or wellnigh content) to see her and fancy the wind in her tresses, the song at her lip. —  John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
 

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  1. Cf. plod. Hence freq. plouter, plotter, etc.
  2. Origin obscure.
  3. plout, v.
 

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