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puttered about

puttered about is the simple past and past participle of putter about.

Meaning of putter about

Verb

putter about (third-person singular simple present putters about, present participle puttering about, simple past and past participle puttered about)

  1. (intransitive) To be engaged in meaningless activity.

Questions about puttered about

What is puttered about the simple past and past participle of?
Puttered about is the simple past and past participle of putter about.

Words near puttered about in the dictionary

  1. putter about
  2. putter around
  3. putter up
  4. putter-on
  5. puttered
  6. puttered about
  7. puttered around
  8. putterer
  9. putterers
  10. puttering
  11. puttering about

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puttered about (page history and authors); putter about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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