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Webster 1913 Edition


Putter

Put′ter

,
Noun.
1.
One who puts or plates.
2.
Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Putter

PUT'TER

,
Noun.
[from put.] One who puts or places.

Definition 2024


putter

putter

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA(key): /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/

Verb

putter (third-person singular simple present putters, present participle puttering, simple past and past participle puttered)

  1. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 13, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.

Etymology 2

put + -er

Pronunciation

  • enPR: po͝ot'ə(r), IPA(key): /ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/

Noun

putter (plural putters)

  1. One who puts or places.
  2. One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.

Etymology 3

putt + -er

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA(key): /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/

Noun

putter (plural putters)

  1. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  2. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

See also


Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

putter m (plural putters, diminutive puttertje n)

  1. European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis

French

Etymology 1

Borrowing from English putter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pœ.tœʁ/

Noun

putter m (plural putters)

  1. putter (golf club)

Etymology 2

English putt + -er

Verb

putter

  1. (golf) to putt
Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

putter

  1. present tense of putte

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

putter f

  1. butter