[puht-er] 
| 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. |
| 4. | puttering or ineffective action; dawdling. |
| 5. | putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away. |
| 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. |
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