putter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpʌtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈpʌtɚ/|/-ɾɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who puts or places.
    — 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.
  2. A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  3. A shot-putter.
  4. A person who is taking a putt or putting.
  5. One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
动词 v.
  1. To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. intransitive
    — 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.
  2. To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. intransitive
    — By the time the engine had puttered and died Atkins and some of the others were out of the trenches and walking towards this new wonder machine.

词形变化

putters present,singular,third-person puttering participle,present puttered participle,past puttered past putters plural putters plural putters present,singular,third-person puttering participle,present puttered participle,past puttered past

词汇关系

衍生词
Schenectady putter
相关词
carter

词源

词源 1
Alteration of potter.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English put
English -er
English putter
From put + -er.
词源 3
Etymology tree
English putt
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English putter
From putt + -er.
词源 4
Onomatopoeic.
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