e-pottering

The act of accidentally squandering several hours (or days) on your computer while not doing anything in particular. e.g., YouTubing “just one more” vid, re-filing mp3s, looking up friends of friends of friends on Facebook, wading through MySpace band requests, Tweeting randoms, browsing for the definition of your own name on the Urban Dictionary etc...

The activity distorts the time perception of the e-potterer in such a way that an apparent 1 min of e-pottering time equates to roughly 1.5 Standard Earth Hours (as perceived by partners, friends, family and the fascist time police at your place of work).

Dude 1 - Bro, you look knackered today were you out late partying?
Dude 2 - No such luck man, I was just up until 4am this morning e-pottering.

by The Purple Princess December 11, 2009

Petering Your Novak

What does it mean to Peter your Novak? Why do we uses this term, this can most be simply described in song and dance. Petering your Novak was developed by high-tech scientists in 1987 to develop a pure essence of life. During this wondering to create something so beautiful. This would end up being to be a tragedy however; the whole experiment went south! The results were somewhat of a anti-pure-essence which took the minds of many and showed them the reality that we call "Petering-your-Novak". The minds of these scientists became manic and would often become uncensored doing what they want.

To this day nobody knows the true effects of Petering on that Novak

Now the term Petering your Novak is used to remember those times. it is often used to describe grotesque events. At the same time describing the most beautiful ones.

You can say - "I petered my Novak" for a sense of how you could use this.

What it means is usually up to the user. This way nobody can really be upset when it comes to Petering their Novak

"You're Petering Your Novak."

by PeterNovak November 2, 2022

Portering

A verb (pronounced "Porter-ing") that describes when a person plays a multi-player video game (such as Halo or Smash Bros.) and sits on the sidelines while the other players fight and kill each other. When only 2 out of all the players fighting are left, the one who took this action tends to win because he did not do anything and angers the other players.

"Freakin' Mike won againg because he was portering the whole time!"

by dube56 May 12, 2008

Pottering

Occupying oneself in an aimless but pleasant way

Ram was pottering around

by Rishav February 19, 2018

pestering

continually talking to you when u dont want them to

jc's a pestering cunt

by rusty jones January 16, 2004

Pestering

To bother persistently with petty annoyances

Stop pestering me

by Stellition June 7, 2014

Paltering

Paltering (gerund or verb) and palter (verb) refer to an extremely common practice of lying and deceiving with true statements. Probably the most common form of paltering (especially among politicians and interviewees on media) is answering a challenging or embarrassing question with a statement which is true but does not address the original question. Frustrated questioners sense the lie, but instead of identifying the paltering, often rephrase and repeat their original question. Strangely, very few know this word and its phenomenon, thinking a lie must be only a misstatement of fact. Check out a long scholarly article on paltering at www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspi0000081.pdf .

By subtle paltering, the witness at a Senate hearing avoided all the challenging and important questions that Senators directed his way, leaving the Senators with a sense of confusion and frustration.

by billdc June 4, 2018