Lexic.us

Definition of Putter

1. Verb. Work lightly. "The old lady is pottering around in the garden"

2. Noun. A golfer who is putting.

3. Verb. Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly. "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"

4. Noun. The iron normally used on the putting green.

5. Verb. Move around aimlessly.

Definition of Putter

1. n. One who puts or plates.

2. v. i. To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

3. n. A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting.

Definition of Putter

1. Verb. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. ¹

2. Noun. One who puts. ¹

3. Noun. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt. ¹

4. Noun. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Putter

1. to occupy oneself in a leisurely or ineffective manner [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Putter

puts someone in their place puts to rest puts two and two together puts up putsch putsches putschist putschists putt puttable

puttanesca putted puttee puttees putten putter (current term) putter-on putter around puttered putterer

putterers puttering putters puttest putteth putti puttie puttied puttier puttiers

Literary usage of Putter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Danger Signals for Teachers by Albert Edward Winship (1919)
"DON'T putter There is every temptation for the teacher to putter. There is less temptation for the principal and superintendent, but whoever deals with ..."

2. Coal Mining Described and Illustrated by Thomas H. Walton (1885)
"THE putter. " BUT you have other duties of an important nature to attend to besides those in which the ventilation of the mine is concerned V " Certainly ..."

3. Golf by Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Henry James Moncreiff (1890)
"He will commonly call for his wooden putter, to approach over the rough ground, and will then exchange this weapon for his iron putter when on the true ..."

4. The Soul of Golf by Percy Adolphus Vaile (1912)
"I do not think that any putter should be built whose face is so narrow that at the moment of striking the ball properly with the putter the top edge of the ..."

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