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n. - A person who moves about in an ineffective manner.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Up to that time I had been clay in the hands of the potter or "potterer" as it might be.
  • Widows begins with Alexandra, the oldest and most earthy of the witches, who has recently lost her cowboy-potterer husband. ...
  • As for the potterer and the niggler, the men and women whose stroke goes no farther back than their knuckles, I may frankly say that charcoal is not for them.
  • She accordingly classed her new possession as a confirmed potterer and made her way down by what Peter with more exactness than delicacy, had already named the Privy Stair.
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