puttered; puttering; putters
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Verb
the motorboat puttered across the lake
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Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Knapp used that money driver, buttery swing and a hot putter to join the 59 Club earlier this year at the Cognizant Classic.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 May 2025
Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
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Noun
Some of the world's best are a few back, including World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, whose putter let him down Friday.
—Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
Knapp used that money driver, buttery swing and a hot putter to join the 59 Club earlier this year at the Cognizant Classic.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 29 May 2025
Verb
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics was a campy explosion of French culture that even pouring rain couldn’t dampen as 85 boats carrying athletes from 205 delegations puttered down the Seine to rapturous applause from an enthusiastic crowd.
—Tess Demeyer, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
The Best Presidents' Day HP Desktop Deals Low-cost desktops are definitely HP's stock in trade, and the Envy series can be found in homes and offices across the world, puttering away and delivering reliable performance at nice prices.
—K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Putter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/putter. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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putter
1 of 3 noun
put·ter
ˈpu̇t-ər 
: one that puts
putter
2 of 3 noun
putt·er
ˈpət-ər
1
: a golf club used in putting
2
: a person who putts
Etymology
Noun
from put and -er (noun suffix)
Noun
from putt and -er (noun suffix)
Verb
an altered form of earlier potter "to move about idly without aim or purpose"
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