putter
verb (used without object)
to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner.
will putter
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future tenseof putter.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Nkrakra will putter along all afternoon with little intervention from you, anytime you want to warm your belly, soul, and home.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2022
Starting today, the hotelier André Balazs will offer 45-minute trips aboard StndAir, an eight-passenger Cessna that will putter between a seaplane ramp at East 23rd Street and the East River, and Easthampton.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2011
Sometimes, between the great actions in the yearly battle for food, Gus will putter about his fruit trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It very well could be that the budget summit will putter into nothing," said New York Democratic Congressman Charles Schumer.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He will putter away there, perfectly content, for an hour," she told Harriet.
From Harriet and the Piper by Kathleen Thompson Norris
