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

Instantly cleared of suspicion was the King's private secretary, Baron Stamford-ham, courtly letter-writer and precise putterer, characterized by Queen Victoria as "a model of tact and diplomacy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Poor old Whinnie, I’m afraid, is more a putterer than a plowman.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.