different between nutter vs putter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nutter, equivalent to nut +? -er.

Noun

nutter (plural nutters)

1. A person who gathers nuts.
2. (Britain, sometimes derogatory, informal) An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person.

Synonyms

• (insane person): loony, nut, nutcase; see also Thesaurus:mad person
• (eccentric person): kook, odd duck, wacko; see also Thesaurus:strange person

Related terms

• nut
• nutbag
• nutty

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of nut +? butter

Noun

nutter (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) nut butter
   • 1907, Reuben Swinburne Clymer, The International System of Direct Medication (page 223)

     Nut Butter (Table Nutter) is also recommended.

   • 1910, Great Britain. Local Government Board, Annual Report (issue 39, page xci)

     Among the miscellaneous articles examined, 27 samples of vegetable fat resembling lard were purchased for analysis under the various names of nut lard, nut butter, nutter, palmine, &c. These were passed as genuine.

Anagrams

• Rutten

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