[
US
/ˈpətɝ/
]
VERB
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do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house - move around aimlessly
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work lightly
The old lady is pottering around in the garden
NOUN
- the iron normally used on the putting green
- a golfer who is putting
How To Use putter In A Sentence
- Smoking and sputtering, the glider zoomed away, with the Green Goblin desperately trying to pull the webbing from his eyes. SPIDER-MAN®: THE ADVENTURES OF SPIDER-MAN
- I puttered around for a while, cleaning up the kitchen.
- Jun summed it up after we puttered around a while together and then came home.
- I know they've reached out to players who use the short putter. Times, Sunday Times
- The other day in the midst of Port-au-Prince, the great degraded capital city that is my home, I saw a car, an old battered car, a jalopy, falter and sputter and come to a slow halt.
- Putting a world-class tax dodger at the controls of our sputtering economy has all the makings of a world-class train wreck.
- I have two drivers, one brassy, a baffy or spoon, two cleeks (one shorter than the other), an iron, sometimes one mashie, sometimes two (one for running up and the other for pitch shots), a niblick, and sometimes two putters (one for long running-up putts and the other for holing out). The Complete Golfer
- The shower head began to spit and sputter out hot water.
- The bubble burst late last year as the economy started sputtering, and now about 10 per cent of credit card debt is more than one month overdue in Asia's fourth-largest economy.
- He'd just pick the ball out of the hole, hand me the putter and beeline for the next tee.
