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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
putter .
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Examples
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Everywhere else, except in Cyril's domain, Pete dusted and swept and "puttered" to his heart's content.
Miss Billy 1894
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In the morning, Rickie walked into the kitchen and puttered around.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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"The Game," a sitcom about pro football players' relationships with women, puttered along in obscurity for three years on the CW network.
Shockingly Good Ratings nytimes.com 2011
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"The Game," a sitcom about pro football players' relationships with women, puttered along in obscurity for three years on the CW network.
Shockingly Good Ratings nytimes.com 2011
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"The Game," a sitcom about pro football players' relationships with women, puttered along in obscurity for three years on the CW network.
Shockingly Good Ratings nytimes.com 2011
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No. 4: “My shame took its place in a vast backdrop of shames – oxygen-starved astronauts, war-exiled orphans, dwindling and displaced species – against which I puttered through daily life, attending parties and combating hangovers, recording voice-overs and granting interviews to obscure fan sites, drinking coffee and smoking joints with Perkus, and making contact with real feeling unpredictably and at random, at funeral receptions, under rain-sheeted doorways.”
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He gave Evans his cellphone number and the boat puttered away.
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When Miriam said she was sending me to a seminary near Lake Okeechobee, I had expected clean air and blue sky, golf carts that puttered around on electricity, computers that hummed invitingly, sleek buildings and celestial sidewalks so white they blinded the eye, a welcoming committee several years removed from death.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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Most days, he puttered around below decks and looked for new water seepage as ospreys floated overhead and a few wind surfers breezed alongside.
Living Alone on a Steel Barge Clearly Has a Downside Joel Millman 2011
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I got up and puttered about the house, then came online and posted my list of favourite films of 2008.
Instead of sleeping, this. greygirlbeast 2009
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