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/pˈətər/ Listen

noun

Putter n.

One who puts or plates.

Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. (Prov. Eng.)

Putter n. (Golf)

(a)

A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting.

(b)

One who putts.

verb

Putter v. i. (past & past part. puttered; pres. part. puttering) To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden.

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Etymology of 'Putter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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