| 单词 | putter |
| 释义 | putter (once / 5913 pages) 1n 2v A golfer who hits the ball very gently close to the hole is a putter. The club used to do this is also a putter. But to putter is to poke around aimlessly, maybe watch a little golf on TV. In golf, the putter is the club with the flat face, and sometimes with a slightly bent shaft. When you hit the ball with a putter, you putt. If you putter, it's something completely different — it means you make yourself busy without accomplishing anything huge. You might putter around the house on Saturday afternoon, filling the dishwasher and flipping through a magazine, for example. The golfing meaning comes from a Scottish word for "push or shove." WORD FAMILYputter: puttered, putterer, puttering, putters+/putt: putted, putter, putting, putts/putterer: putterers/putting: puttings USAGE EXAMPLESFirst, using the football as a putter, Harris mimicked stroking a putt. Golf Digest(Dec 26, 2016) He puttered about in the castle he owned outside of London. The New Yorker(Dec 21, 2016) Pass on actually hitting a shot, unless it’s a putter. Golf Digest(Dec 13, 2016) 1 1n a golfer who is putting Hyper golf player, golfer, linksman someone who plays the game of golf 2n the iron normally used on the putting green 2Syn|Hyper putting iron iron a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head 1v do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly Syn|Hypo|Hyper mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker puddle mess around, as in a liquid or paste work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity 2v move around aimlessly Syn|Hyper potter, potter around, putter around move move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion 3v work lightly Syn|Hyper potter busy, occupy keep busy with |
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