Alteration of potter.

• (RP) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/

putter (putters, present participle puttering; simple past and past participle puttered)

1. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗, pages 304–305 ↗:

     We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.

• Russian: возиться

From put + -er.

• (RP) enPR: po͝ot'ə(r), IPA: /ˈpʊtə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpʊtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/

putter (plural putters)

1. One who puts or places.

   Coordinate term: puttee

   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life, page 39:

     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.

   • 2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55:

     […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).

2. A shot-putter.
3. (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.

From .

• (RP) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/

putter (plural putters)

1. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
2. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

• German: Putter

• (RP) enPR: pŭt'ə(r), IPA: /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpʌtɚ/, /-ɾɚ/

putter (putters, present participle puttering; simple past and past participle puttered)

1. (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

• Russian: тарахтеть