0 present participle of potter
1 to move around without hurrying, and in a relaxed and pleasant way:
Indeed, gardening is not just about pottering picturesquely in the herbaceous borders in these works, it is an opportunity both to act and to think.
Hundreds of labourers, day after day, week after week, and month after month, have been pottering about the local tribunals.
It is no use going on as we are, pottering.
We saw him pottering in and out an hour or so ago.
There is an awful feeling that we are pottering at this without really working on a strategy which is based on a long-term policy.
One has to have inspectors pottering around the farms counting the number of legs of the sheep and dividing by four.
We are only pottering with things.
We cannot afford to go pottering along.