potter about
English
Verb
potter about (third-person singular simple present potters about, present participle pottering about, simple past and past participle pottered about)
- (Britain) To potter, to be gently active doing various things in an almost aimless manner.
- I like to relax pottering about the house doing this and that at the weekends.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 12, in Sons and Lovers:
- Slowly the hours crawled. His father got up; he heard him pottering about.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 15, in The Moon and Sixpence:
- "I remember before we were married he used to potter about with a paint-box. But you never saw such daubs. We used to chaff him. He had absolutely no gift for anything like that."
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to be gently active without much aim
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