putter

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
2. noun One who puts or places.
3. noun A shot-putter.
4. noun One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
5. noun A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
6. noun A person who is taking a putt or putting.
7. verb To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

Similar words

putter around muck around mess around potter around monkey around tinker potter monkey putting iron club

Often followed by

around and in is with about to head of

Word family

puttered putterer putterers puttering putters