Lexicographical Neighbors of Plouters
Literary usage of Plouters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"... I stand under the shelter of a sketching umbrella and attempt to thrust away
my misgivings about the sanity of poor M'Skian as he " plouters " about. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1886)
"In all this essay, to borrow one of his own favourite words, he simply "
plouters "•—splashes and flounders about without any guidance of critical theory. ..."
3. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1890)
"In all this essay, to borrow one of his own favourite words, he simply " plouters"—
splashes and flounders about without any guidance of critical theory. ..."
4. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... that here my respected brother is indeed a great goose. Shepherd. Or rather
a wee bit duck, cryin' quack, quack, quack, as it plouters amang the dubs; ..."
5. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1866)
"... that here my respected brother is indeed a great goose. Shepherd. Or rather
a wee bit duck, cry in' quack, quack, quack, as it plouters amang the dubs; ..."
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