puttering
忙忙碌碌,忙忙碌碌的,忙忙碌碌中,忙乱
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Definitions
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- : to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.
- : to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose: to putter about the house on a rainy day.
- : to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.
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- : puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.
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- : putter away, to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away.
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Examples
When you’re looking down at Cobra’s King Supersport-35 putter, it appears fairly similar to other modern blade-style putters on the market.
Although there will be 50 non-company run Blockbusters puttering around for a while longer.
Stop puttering around, sit down at your desk, and write out the speech or practice the sonata 100 times.
People—several of them bare-footed—were wearing flannel pajamas, puttering around in the chilly weather, preparing for bed.
Hicks was puttering around the fire, evidently cooking supper, and Gregory was moving the picket rope of his horse to fresh grass.
I'm tired of puttering round in the sick room, and she's so much better now that she doesn't keep one on the jump.
The school of tuna showed again, puttering and fiddling around, with great blue-and-green flashes caught by the sun.
It became manifest then that my knees were wabbling, my feet puttering around, my whole lower limbs shaking as if I had the palsy.
Peter Taylor, puttering in the front yard, greeted the visitors in his saturnine style.