Putter vs Putted - What's the difference?
putter | putted |
(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.
(putt)
(golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green.
(onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
(British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.
To make a putt sound.
(motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
To move along slowly.
As verbs the difference between putter and putted
is that putter is to be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks while putted is past tense of putt.As a noun putter
is one who puts or places.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.}}