Pottering definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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But for his extravagance, and the misfortunes he had brought upon them, her old general would be alive still--pottering about in the spring sunshine, spudding the daisies from the turf, or smoking his pipe beneath the thickening trees.

—Lady Rose's Daughter

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I've noticed in recent years, as laptops have got cheaper, people are using them more and more, either for work or just extended periods of e-pottering.
He can often be found pottering around with his dogs, — TravelPod.com Recent Updates
He is uncommonly well, and has been all the winter pottering--by the bye, that is an appropriate word, isn't it?--reminds one of one of his own jokes--after a girl who rather fancies him, in spite of his crimson locks, or perhaps because of them. — Molly Bawn
'The time for half-measures and trifling and pottering, in which I have so long indulged myself, is now gone by, and I must do or die.' — The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
He had turned his back on serious work, so that pottering was now all he could aspire to. — The Tragic Muse