putter around

English

Alternative forms

potter around (mostly UK)

Verb

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

(US) To engage in meaningless activity.
- 1994 January 21, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
  I can't wait until I'm old enough to "putter around".

Translations

to engage in meaningless activity

Occitan: vagar (oc), trabalhejar
Polish: krzątać się impf
Portuguese: ficar de enrolação
Serbo-Croatian: prčkati (sh), petljati (sh)

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