Puttering

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puttered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Puttering}.] [See {Potter}.]
     To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a
     liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around
     in the garden.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "puttering":
     coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, fiddling, flirtation,
     fooling, fooling around, idling, jerking off, kidding around,
     loitering, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around, piddling,
     playing, playing around, pottering, smattering, tinkering, toying,
     trifling