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Putter   /pˈətər/   Listen
Putter

noun
1.
A golfer who is putting.
2.
The iron normally used on the putting green.  Synonym: putting iron.
verb
(past & past part. puttered; pres. part. puttering)
1.
Work lightly.  Synonym: potter.
2.
Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly.  Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker.
3.
Move around aimlessly.  Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around.



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"Putter" Quotes from Famous Books



... said. "If this is spring, I'd just as lief have winter. I tell you what it is, Delia, it won't take me long to tumble into bed. I'm frozen stiff already. I hope you locked up before you came out, so all we'll have to do will be to go upstairs. I hate to putter about in the cold." ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann

... career seldom equaled since the days of Hercules. For Eric was a champion tennis-player, hockey-player, baseballist, boxer, swimmer, runner, jumper, shot-putter. And he was the best quoit-thrower in the New Haven town square. Rudd had rather dim notions of some of the games, so that Eric was established both as center rush of the football team and ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... bunk. Of course, he does putter around with modeling clay a bit, and writes the sort of club-footed verse they ...
— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... old and learned college, Where you'd think the leading industry was Greek; Even there the favoured instruments of knowledge Are a driver and a putter and a cleek. ...
— The Scarlet Gown - being verses by a St. Andrews Man • R. F. Murray

... sturdily. "You had the making of a great shot putter, Patsy. You'd have made a record ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour


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