Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
potter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"pottered" about, with ever a smile on her face for her boys.
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So I pottered instead and did a bit more housework and started easing by brain towards The Reluctant Mage and by golly, I got to bed at a reasonable hour.
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I couldn't see it as she pottered about making coffee, fussed over her uneaten carrot cake and talked me through the events of his death and the subsequent trial.
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(For some reason I never really pottered around Europe:)
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Much of last week, for Britain, was wasted while David Cameron pottered around the Middle East with a posse of arms manufacturers and Nick Clegg strapped his half-term skis on.
Libya: Gaddafi's cronies must desert or be damned | Observer editorial
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The drawings were full of details from their domestic life: her grandmother also pottered about carrying a basket of keys, and in the renovation of their own house they had recently discovered a bundle of huge, ancient keys.
Ronald Searle cartoons go on show to help breast cancer charities
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I laughed out loud, thanked her, and pottered off.
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On deck, for'ard, a dozen blacks pottered clumsily at scraping the teak rail.
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Cheerful Mrs Mole pottered happily around her idyllic home, stitching patchwork, making cakes, stirring pots, arranging flowers, at an absolutely gruesome time in the lives of the cartoonist Ronald Searle and his wife, Monica.
Ronald Searle cartoons go on show to help breast cancer charities
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First Sehwag, then Sachin Tendulkar, whose customary standing ovation as he made his way to the middle was followed by another 11 minutes later as he pottered back again, his defensive prod sliced to third slip.
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