pooter A device that is used to collect and transfer small animals. It consists of a jar, sealed by a cover pierced by two tubes pointing in opposite directions. The operator sucks on the end of one tube (made flexible for convenience and the end inside the jar covered with muslin), drawing the specimen up the other (open) tube and into the jar.

pooter A device that is used to collect and transfer small animals. It consists of a jar, sealed by a cover pierced by two tubes pointing in opposite directions. The operator sucks on the end of one tube (made flexible for convenience and the end inside the jar covered with muslin), drawing the specimen up the other (open) tube and into the jar.

Pooter a person resembling Charles Pooter, whose mundane and trivial lifestyle is the subject of George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody (1892); a narrow, fastidious, or self-important person.