putter

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: putt=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

putter, n. 

•  One who puts or plates.  [1913 Webster]
•  Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.  [1913 Webster]

putter, n. 

 A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a metal head, used in putting.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

putter, v. i. [See Potter.].

 To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around in the garden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

putter, n.
1 a golf club used in putting.
2 a golfer who putts.

putter, n. & v. = PUT-PUT.

putter, US var. of POTTER(1).

THESAURUS

putter

beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, dabble, dally, diddle, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, kill time, loiter, lose time, mess, mess around, monkey, monkey around, pass the time, piddle, play, play around, play with, potter, puddle, smatter, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, twiddle, waste time