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vb. (en-pastpotter around)
Usage examples of "pottered around".
On this visit, he pottered around the office while Lombar bullied him.
The Thinking Machine pottered around aimlessly for ten minutes while Hatch looked on.
Now thoroughly awake, and too rattled to even imagine recapturing sleep, he pottered around the weather office, and caught up on all the routine files he had set aside that morning in favor of the repairs junket.
Furthermore, he was hungry, and he did not propose to lie there and starve while old Cash pottered around the stove.
He was tired of the house, tired of the frozen garden, tired of scolding the slovenly girl who pottered around all day in a boudoir cap and slovenly wrapper.
He was not so tall, but he was heavier than the Coyote, and, seizing her by her wool-protected neck, he shook her till, in a surprisingly short time, she lay limp and lifeless, at which all the men seemed pleased, and congratulated the Terrier, while the Greyhounds pottered around in restless perplexity.
He'd pottered around, dressed in nothing but a towel, had had a look at the stars from the terrace - that hadn't lasted long-and then bed .
They pottered around for a while, went swimming again, sawed a couple of boards to length, and eventually startled their parents by appearing at home well in advance of the evening meal.
He pottered around his office, pondering one of the central riddles of quantum physics: how two particles fired simultaneously from the same source could arrive at the same destination at the same instant, even though one had to travel ten times as far as the other.