pottering

I could manage the little jobs that I'd get—in fact, pottering about at them would do me good.

He left the room and she heard him pottering in the kitchen.

Just as if we hadn't had enough tinkering and pottering lately.

The men were a sculptor, pottering with clay, and his model.

Harlan was engaged in that pleasant pastime known as “pottering.”

Then she saw old Lawdor pottering in and out of a room into which she had not yet looked.

In an humble and pottering way, we are a happy family, James.

What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night?

I am not fit for anything more now than pottering about with my fishing-lines.

And what a pottering old rascal Charley was among the stone walls.