putter

Meanings

Verb

• 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.

Noun

• One who puts or places.
• A shot-putter.
• One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.
• A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
• A person who is taking a putt or putting.

Origin

• Alteration of potter.
• put + -er.
• putt + -er
• onomatopoeia.