pottered; pottering; potters
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Verb
pottering around indoors on a rainy day
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Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
The corpse was headed for potter’s field in late March when the funeral parlor received a strange call — a man offering to pay for the burial.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2025
As West Point residents were pottering about their errands, their lives were halted by a public health system that wanted to contain the disease.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The tension between sharp contemporary verisimilitude and age-old romantic archetype helps explain why Bridget potters on while so many other ’90s heroines have fallen by the wayside.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
The corpse was headed for potter’s field in late March when the funeral parlor received a strange call — a man offering to pay for the burial.
—Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 22 Feb. 2025
Verb
This was a frequent chorus from my siblings and me as children, as our grandmother pottered about the kitchen chewing on a stick that looked a bit like sugarcane, fixing a drink brewed with honey and lemon.
—Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2025
As West Point residents were pottering about their errands, their lives were halted by a public health system that wanted to contain the disease.
—Edna Bonhomme, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Potter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potter. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
Copy CitationKids Definition
potter
1 of 2 noun
pot·ter
ˈpät-ər 
: one that makes pottery
Biographical Definition
Potter 1 of 2
biographical name (1)
Pot·ter
ˈpä-tər
Beatrix 1866–1943 British writer and illustrator
Potter
2 of 2biographical name (2)
Paul or Paulus 1625–1654 Dutch painter
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