putter Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a golfer who is putting
  2. noun the iron normally used on the putting green
    putting iron.
  3. verb work lightly
    potter.
    • The old lady is pottering around in the garden
  4. verb do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
    monkey around; mess around; monkey; potter; tinker; muck around; muck about.
    • The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house
  5. verb move around aimlessly
    potter; putter around; potter around.

WordNet

Put"ter noun
Definitions
  1. One who puts or plates.
  2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. Prov. Eng.
Put"ter intransitive verb
Etymology
See Potter.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Puttered ; present participle & verbal noun Puttering
Definitions
  1. To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

Webster 1913