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)

1. (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)