0 present participle of potter --
1 to move around without hurrying, and in a relaxed and pleasant way: --
Pottering is also main business for people of muragod.
He is never happier than when pottering about the grounds on a fine sunny day.
He turned up on his bike, just pottering about.
One is not talking of a man with a shovel pottering across his field to open a ditch that is blocked, but to fairly major works.
I do not want a housing scheme for agricultural labourers to go pottering about among all the local authorities of the country, with us trying to get them to agree.
We cannot afford to go pottering along.
We are only pottering with things.
One has to have inspectors pottering around the farms counting the number of legs of the sheep and dividing by four.