putterer

Example Sentences

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I think I’m just a serial putterer, in that I putter around and I don’t know what I’m doing a lot of the time.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

Whether Mom is a weed warrior with a spacious backyard garden or a patio putterer with a bunch of potted plants, the right tool can make all the difference between blisters and bliss.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2016

But there’s a darker side to locophilia and the DIY movement, a place where the self-reliance of the woodshop putterer meets the libertarian zeal of the garage gunsmith.

From Slate • May 7, 2015

A chemical putterer since he was ten, good-looking, even-tempered Willard Dow is extremely popular with his employes, most of whom call him by his first name.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his insistence upon solidity and exactitude he went beyond the point of careful workmanship and became a putterer.

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline