different between gutter vs putter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???t.?/, /???t?.?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gutter, guttur, goter, from Anglo-Norman guttere, from Old French goutiere (French gouttière), ultimately from Latin gutta (“drop”).

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
2. A ditch along the side of a road.
3. A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.

4. (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.

5. A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
6. Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
7. (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
8. (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
9. (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
10. (Britain) A drainage channel.
11. The notional locus of things, acts, or events which are distasteful, ill bred or morally questionable.
12. (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.

13. (comics) The spaces between comic book panels

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: gotro

Translations

See also

• gutter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• gout

Verb

gutter (third-person singular simple present gutters, present participle guttering, simple past and past participle guttered)

1. To flow or stream; to form gutters. [from late 14th c.]
2. (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle. [from early 18th c.]
3. (of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
4. (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
5. (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

6. (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.

Translations

Etymology 2

gut +? -er

Noun

gutter (plural gutters)

1. One who or that which guts.
   • 1921, Bernie Babcock, The Coming of the King (page 151)

     A Galilean Rabbi? When did this Province of diggers in dirt and gutters of fish send forth Rabbis? Thou makest a jest.

   • 2013, Don Keith, Shelley Stewart, Mattie C.'s Boy: The Shelley Stewart Story (page 34)

     An old, rusty coat hanger made a rudimentary fish-gutter.

Danish

Noun

gutter c

1. indefinite plural of gut

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Noun

gutter m

1. indefinite plural of gutt

English

Etymology 1

Alteration of potter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?t'?(r), IPA^(key): /?p?t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /-??/
• Hyphenation: put?ter

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.

Etymology 2

put +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: po?ot'?(r), IPA^(key): /?p?t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /-??/
• Hyphenation: putt?er

Noun

putter (plural putters)

1. One who puts or places.
   • 1995, Leonard Shengold, Delusions of Everyday Life (page 39)

     He was a model of anal defensiveness: fastidious in his dress and appearance, a collector and putter of things in order, a classifier and labeler.

2. A shot-putter.
3. (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine.

Derived terms

• (one who puts or places): shot-putter

Etymology 3

putt +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?t'?(r), IPA^(key): /?p?t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /-??/
• Hyphenation: putt?er

Noun

putter (plural putters)

1. (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
2. (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.

Translations

Etymology 4

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?t'?(r), IPA^(key): /?p?t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /-??/
• Hyphenation: put?ter

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.

Translations

Further reading

• putter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• putter (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pruett

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: put?ter
• Rhymes: -?t?r

Etymology 1

From putten (“to draw water”) +? -er.

Noun

putter m (plural putters, diminutive puttertje n)

1. A European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis.

   Synonym: distelvink

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English putter. Equivalent to putten +? -er.

Noun

putter m (plural putters)

1. (golf) A putter, a golf club used to putt.

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English putter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pœ.tœ?/

Noun

putter m (plural putters)

1. putter (golf club)

Etymology 2

English putt +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pœ.te/

Verb

putter

1. (golf) to putt

Conjugation

Further reading

• “putter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

putter

1. present of putte

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

putter f

1. butter