pothering

The men like to have me pothering around, and I've discovered that one never really has a house unless he helps build it.

The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge

The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.

Chapter 14 1913

The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.

Chapter 14 1911

The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.

The Amateur Navigator 1910

That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless.

The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

While his subtle mind was pothering with schemes of detection, the affair presented itself in another light, and he laughed at his own dulness.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

"Ho! inteed!" exclaimed Angus, rising in wrath, and cramming his pipe into his vest pocket; "it is herself that will pe pothering you no more spout your dirty land, Samyool Ruvnshaw."

The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood 1859

Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and uproaring for his 'happiness,' -- pothering, and were it ballot-boxing, poem - making, or in what way soever fussing and exerting himself, -- he is not the man that will help us to 'get our knaves and dastards arrested!'

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

Truly, I think the man who goes about pothering and uproaring for his

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

"the man who goes about pothering and uproaring for his _happiness_," he says: --

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various