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Definition of putter - 9 dictionary results
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put⋅ter

1  [puht-er]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
2. to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose: to putter about the house on a rainy day.
3. to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.
–noun
4. puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
—Verb phrase
5. putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away.
Also, especially British, potter.

Origin:
1875–80; var. of potter 2

Related forms:
put⋅ter⋅er, noun
put⋅ter⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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putt⋅er

2  [puht-er]
–noun Golf.
1. a person who putts.
2. a club with a relatively short, stiff shaft and a wooden or iron head, used in putting.
Origin:
1735–45; putt + -er 1

put⋅ter

3  [poot-er]
–noun
1. a person or thing that puts.
2. Track. a shot-putter.
Origin:
1810–20; put + -er 1
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putt·er 1   (pŭt'ər)   
n.  
  1. A short golf club used for putting.
  2. A golfer who is putting.
put·ter 2   (pŭt'ər)   
v.   put·tered, put·ter·ing, put·ters

v.   intr.
To occupy oneself in an aimless or ineffective manner.
v.   tr.
To waste (time) in idling: puttered away the hours in the garden.

[Probably alteration of potter, probably frequentative of Middle English poten, to poke, push, from Old English potian.]
put'ter·er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Putter

Putt"er\, n. (Golf) (a) A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting. (b) One who putts.

Putter

Put"ter\, n. 1. One who puts or plates.

2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]

Putter

Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb. n. Puttering.] [See Potter.] To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : putter
Spanish: putter,
German: der Putter,
Japanese: パター
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putter 
"keep busy in a rather useless way," 1877 alteration of potter (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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