Putter

Quick meaning: Putter is a verb meaning (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.

Meaning

(intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.

More Meanings

1. One who puts or places.
2. A shot-putter.
3. (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
4. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
5. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
6. (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

Example Sentences

By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine.

He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

Timmy's dad drove an old blue truck that puttered and sputtered to get to the top of the mountain, that led to the valley, where … the WILDCAT waited.

My boyfriend, the cello owner, makes little noises while he putters around, which distracts me from reading my 20,000-word long-form articles about Iraq. So I noise-cancel him too.

Word Forms

• putters
• puttering
• puttered

Synonyms for putter

Depending on context, synonyms include tinker, monkey, potter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tinker, potter, monkey, club, shafted, putt.

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