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putter
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun putter has 2 senses
- putter(n = noun.person) Array - a golfer who is putting; Array is a kind of golf player, golfer, linksman
- putter(n = noun.artifact) putting iron - the iron normally used on the putting green; Array is a kind of iron
Derived forms verb putt1, verb putt2
Derived forms verb putt1, verb putt2
Verb putter has 3 senses
- putter(v = verb.social) potter - work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the garden" is one way to busy, occupy
- putter(v = verb.contact) mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" is one way to work
- putter(v = verb.contact) potter, potter around, putter around - move around aimlessly; Array is one way to move
Derived form noun putterer1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun putterer1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derived form noun putterer1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
CIDE DICTIONARY
putter, n.
- One who puts or plates. [1913 Webster]
- Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [1913 Webster]
putter, n.
A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
putter, v. i. [See Potter.].
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
putter, n.
1 a golf club used in putting.
2 a golfer who putts.
1 a golf club used in putting.
2 a golfer who putts.
putter, n. & v. = PUT-PUT.
putter, US var. of POTTER(1).
THESAURUS
putter
beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, dabble, dally, diddle, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, kill time, loiter, lose time, mess, mess around, monkey, monkey around, pass the time, piddle, play, play around, play with, potter, puddle, smatter, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, twiddle, waste time
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