potter
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)potters
Verb (3)potters, pottered, pottering
- do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly“The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house”Synonyms: puttermess aroundtinkermonkeymonkey aroundmuck aboutmuck aroundMore general workMore specific puddle
- work lightly“The old lady is pottering around in the garden”Synonyms: putterMore general busy, occupy
- move around aimlesslySynonyms: putterpotter aroundputter aroundMore general move
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Translations
Noun one who makes pots and ceramic wares
- Spanish
- alfarero
- French
- potier
- German
- Töpfer
- Italian
- vasaio
- Portuguese
- oleiro
- Turkish
- çömlekçi
- Russian
- гонча́р gončár
- Arabic
- خَزَّاف ḵazzāf
- Chinese
- 陶瓷工 táocígōng
- Japanese
- 陶工 tōkō
24 more languages
- Dutch
- pottenbakker
- Polish
- garncarz
- Swedish
- krukmakare
- Greek
- αγγειοπλάστης angeioplástis
- Korean
- 도공 dogong
- Indonesian
- kumbakara
- Hungarian
- fazekas
- Portuguese (PT)
- oleiro
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 陶瓷工 táocígōng
- Catalan
- terrissaire
- Czech
- hrnčíř
- Danish
- pottemager
- Esperanto
- potisto
- Finnish
- savenvalaja
- Georgian
- მეთუნე metune
- Hebrew
- קַדָּר kádar
- Kurdish
- pirûd
- Latvian
- podnieks
- Lithuanian
- puodžius
- Romanian
- olar
- Serbo-Croatian
- lončar
- Slovak
- hrnčiar
- Swahili
- mfinyanzi
- Yiddish
- טעפּער teper
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Cf. F. potier.
1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. Ps. ii. 9.
The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.— Henry W. Longfellow
2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. dialect (England) Thomas DeQuincey
3. One who pots meats or other eatables.
4. Zoology The red-bellied terrapin. See Terrapin.
Potter's asthma Medicine, emphysema of the lungs; — so called because very prevalent among potters. Parkers. — Potter's clay. See under Clay. — Potter's field, a public burial place, especially in a city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; — so named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in Matt. xxvii. 7. — Potter's ore. See Alquifou. — Potter's wheel, a horizontal revolving disk on which the clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. “My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.” William Shakespeare — Potter wasp Zoology, a small solitary wasp (Eumenes fraternal) which constructs a globular nest of mud and sand in which it deposits insect larvæ, such as cankerworms, as food for its young.
Origin: Cf. W. pwtio to poke, or OD. poteren to search one thoroughly, Sw. påta, peta, to pick, E. pother, put.
1. To busy one's self with trifles; to labor with little purpose, energy, of effect; to trifle; to putter; to pother. Syn. — putter; pother.
Pottering about the Mile End cottages.— Mrs. Humphry Ward
2. To walk lazily or idly; to saunter.
To poke; to push; also, to disturb; to confuse; to bother. dialect (England) James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54