different between guttering vs puttering

guttering

English

Noun

guttering (usually uncountable, plural gutterings)

  1. Gutters collectively.

Verb

guttering

  1. present participle of gutter

Adjective

guttering

  1. (of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
    • 1919, Siegfried Sassoon, The Dug-out
      Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
      And one arm bent across your sullen cold
      Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
      Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;

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puttering

English

Verb

puttering

  1. present participle of putter

Noun

puttering (plural putterings)

  1. The act of one who putters.
    • 2001, Gordon MacCreagh, White Waters and Black
      He has had legal and business training; so his complex is an ultimate scorn for the ineffectual fussings and putterings of men who have not been trained along practical lines — such as scientists.

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