Definitions for putter

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putter put·ter

Spelling: [puht-er]

IPA: /ˈpʌt ər/

Putter is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in putter (eprttu).

Definitions for putter

noun

1. puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
2. a person who putts.
3. a club with a relatively short, stiff shaft and a wooden or iron head, used in putting.
4. a person or thing that puts.
5. Track. a shot-putter.

Verb phrases

1. putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste:

verb (used without object)

1. to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner:
2. to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose:
3. to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.

Origin of putter

First recorded in 1875-80; variant of potter²

Examples for putter

Seems's if he loved to putter about 'n' fool with things in a room, like women.

Dick was now becoming a biggish boy, and he hoped soon to be made a putter.

"Durned if you don't look like a man who can handle a horse," said Mr. putter.

Her next boy, Ben, worked with his father in the pit, as a putter.

Tiger wears Nike clothing from head to toe, and with the exception of his putter, uses only Nike clubs and balls.

It was only Bill Hagger, the putter, with his corve, or basket of coals.

With a photograph of goalkeeper Robert Green on the England team's golf outing, the Sun screamed the headline, " putter FINGERS."

The devilish thing about you inventors is that you putter so.

But though I keep it still and treasure it, I have never played with that putter since.

"Oh, that's all right," she said carelessly, throwing her putter to the boy.