Synonyms for pottering
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : pot-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɒt ər |
Top 10 synonyms for pottering Other synonyms for the word pottering
- amuse oneself
- be insincere
- dabble
- dawdle
- dilly-dallying
- doodle
- fiddle
- fidget
- finger
- flirt
- fool
- fool around
- fool with
- fribble
- fritter
- futz around
- goof around
- goof-off time
- handle
- hibernation
- horse around
- idle
- idleness
- inactivity
- indolence
- indulge in
- inertia
- inertness
- inoperativeness
- interfere
- joblessness
- laze
- lazing
- lead on
- leisure
- loafing
- loiter
- loitering
- lollygag
- lounge
- mess
- mess around
- mess with
- misuse
- monkey
- monkey with
- muck around
- niggle
- otiosity
- own sweet time
- palter
- philander
- play
- play around
- play games with
- play the fool
- play with
- poke
- potter
- pottering
- puddle
- putter
- shiftlessness
- shuffle around
- sloth
- slothfulness
- slouch
- slowness
- squander
- string along
- stupor
- tamper
- time on one's hands
- time to burn
- time to kill
- time-wasting
- tinker
- torpidity
- torpor
- touch
- toy
- trifle
- trifling
- truancy
- twiddle
- unemployment
- use up
- vegetating
- wanton
- waste
- waste time
- wink at
Définition of pottering
Origin :- "maker of pots" (they also sometimes doubled as bell-founders), late Old English pottere "potter," reinforced by Old French potier "potter," agent noun from root of pot (n.1). As a surname from late 12c. Potter's field (1520s) is Biblical, a ground where clay suitable for pottery was dug, later purchased by high priests of Jerusalem as a burying ground for strangers, criminals, and the poor (Matt. xxvii:7). An older Old English word for "potter" was crocwyrhta "crock-wright."
- As in inactivity : noun inaction
- As in inertness : noun inaction
- As in inoperativeness : noun inaction
- As in idleness : noun laziness, inaction
- As in mess around : verb fiddle; goof off
- As in putter : verb dawdle
- As in trifle : verb toy with; mess around
- As in twiddle : verb fiddle
- As in fiddle : verb mess with, tinker
- I could manage the little jobs that I'd get—in fact, pottering about at them would do me good.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- He left the room and she heard him pottering in the kitchen.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 » by Various
- The men were a sculptor, pottering with clay, and his model.
- Extract from : « The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers » by John Burroughs
- Harlan was engaged in that pleasant pastime known as “pottering.”
- Extract from : « At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern » by Myrtle Reed
- Then she saw old Lawdor pottering in and out of a room into which she had not yet looked.
- Extract from : « The Girl from Sunset Ranch » by Amy Bell Marlowe
- In an humble and pottering way, we are a happy family, James.
- Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol
- What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night?
- Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
- I am not fit for anything more now than pottering about with my fishing-lines.
- Extract from : « Lords of the World » by Alfred John Church
- And what a pottering old rascal Charley was among the stone walls.
- Extract from : « Ravenshoe » by Henry Kingsley
Antonyms for pottering
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