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putter

UK /ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/US /ˈpʊtɚ/

noun 3
/ˈpʌtɚ/ noun 2
/ˈpʌtɚ/ verb 2
forms 3
phrases 2

noun3

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One who puts or places.
- He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler. — 1995
A shot-putter.
One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.

putter

UK /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/US /ˈpʌtɚ/

noun2

A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
A person who is taking a putt or putting.

verb2

To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
•
To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.
- By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine. — 2010

forms

puttered · puttering · putters

Phrases with putter

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