Putter vs Punter - What's the difference?
putter | punter |
(label) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
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, title= (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
(golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
One who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).
One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
One who punts a football.
(British, slang) one who gambles. See speculator.
(British, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
A beginner or unskilled climber
As nouns the difference between putter and punter
is that putter is one who puts or places while punter is one who bets (punts) against the bank (banque).As a verb putter
is to be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.putter
English
Etymology 1
Alteration ofVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
