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Putter vs Puttee - What's the difference?

putter | puttee |

As verbs the difference between putter and puttee

is that putter is (label) to be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks while puttee is .

As a noun putter

is who puts or places or putter can be (golf) a golf club specifically intended for a putt.

putter

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= 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.}}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • who puts or places.
  • One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.

    • Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
  • (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

    • See also

    * shot-putter English heteronyms ----

    puttee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
  • *1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 113:
  • *:he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.

    • References

    * McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary , Oxford university press. 1993 * Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884. * Cappeller, Carl A Sanskrit-English dictionary Bostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.