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Putter

verb

(past & past part. puttered; pres. part. puttering)

Work lightly. Synonym: potter.

Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly. Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker.

Move around aimlessly. Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around.

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"Putter" Quotes from Famous Books

... for battle. One sporting character emitted an appalling "View Halloo" and there were a few "Yoicks" and "Gone Aways" to support his little solecism. Lucille, rushing to Dam, encountered the fleeing reptile and with a neat stroke of her putter ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... a couple of innocent looking white balls across the landscape. Every now and then they would come upon a grass lawn with an iron cup in the centre of it, and then each Potent Noble would waste a lot of time urging his ball into the cup with the short and deadly putter which was normally used for slaughtering whisky golfs which ...

— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley

... months on "Yvytot," but as a matter of fact he had been mulling it over for twice that many years; and he had hoped to finish it in time for his "Little Book of Western Verse." But it was one of those bits of verse upon which he loved to putter, and he was loath to put it into type beyond the reach of occasional revision. When the "Little Book of Western Verse" was issued in popular form "Yvytot" was included in it in the place of the list of subscribers and John Wilson & Son's colophon. ...

— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

Words linked to "Putter" : busy, linksman, puddle, iron, occupy, golf player, putt, work, move, golfer