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putter
(encz) | putter,typ golfové hole n: |
Putter
(gcide) | Putter \Put"ter\, n.
1. One who puts or plates.
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2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal
mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]
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Putter
(gcide) | Putter \Putt"er\, n. (Golf)
(a) A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a
metal head, used in putting.
(b) One who putts.
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Putter
(gcide) | Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Puttering.] [See Potter.]
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a
liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around
in the garden.
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putter
(wn) | putter
n 1: a golfer who is putting
2: the iron normally used on the putting green [syn: putter,
putting iron]
v 1: work lightly; "The old lady is pottering around in the
garden" [syn: potter, putter]
2: do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly;
"The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"
[syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey,
monkey around, muck about, muck around]
3: move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, {potter
around}, putter around] |
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putter around
(encz) | putter around, v: |
putterer
(encz) | putterer, |
shot putter
(encz) | shot putter,koulař Zdeněk Brož |
shot-putter
(encz) | shot-putter, |
sputter
(encz) | sputter,breptat v: Zdeněk Brožsputter,drmolit v: Zdeněk Brožsputter,kašlat v: Zdeněk Brožsputter,praskání n: Zdeněk Brožsputter,prskat v: Zdeněk Brož |
sputtering
(encz) | sputtering,pokovování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Putter
(gcide) | Putter \Put"ter\, n.
1. One who puts or plates.
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2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal
mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]
[1913 Webster]Putter \Putt"er\, n. (Golf)
(a) A club with a short shaft and either a wooden or a
metal head, used in putting.
(b) One who putts.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Puttering.] [See Potter.]
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a
liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around
in the garden.
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Puttered
(gcide) | Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Puttering.] [See Potter.]
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a
liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around
in the garden.
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Puttering
(gcide) | Putter \Put"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Puttering.] [See Potter.]
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a
liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; as, to putter around
in the garden.
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Putter-on
(gcide) | Putter-on \Put"ter-on`\, n.
An instigator. --Shak.
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Sputter
(gcide) | Sputter \Sput"ter\, v. t.
To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a
spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without
control over the organs of speech.
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In the midst of caresses, and without the least
pretended incitement, to sputter out the basest
accusations. --Swift.
[1913 Webster]Sputter \Sput"ter\, n.
Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also,
confused and hasty speech.
[1913 Webster]Sputter \Sput"ter\ (sp[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Sputtered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering.] [From
the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf.
Splutter.]
1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small,
scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so
rapidly as to emit saliva.
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They could neither of them speak their rage, and so
fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting
apples. --Congreve.
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3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a
noise like that made by one sputtering.
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Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.
--Dryden.
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Sputtered
(gcide) | Sputter \Sput"ter\ (sp[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Sputtered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering.] [From
the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf.
Splutter.]
1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small,
scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so
rapidly as to emit saliva.
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They could neither of them speak their rage, and so
fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting
apples. --Congreve.
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3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a
noise like that made by one sputtering.
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Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.
--Dryden.
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Sputterer
(gcide) | Sputterer \Sput"ter*er\ (-[~e]r), n.
One who sputters.
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Sputtering
(gcide) | Sputter \Sput"ter\ (sp[u^]t"t[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Sputtered (-t[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Sputtering.] [From
the root of spout or spit to eject from the mouth. Cf.
Splutter.]
1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small,
scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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2. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so
rapidly as to emit saliva.
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They could neither of them speak their rage, and so
fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting
apples. --Congreve.
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3. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a
noise like that made by one sputtering.
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Like the green wood . . . sputtering in the flame.
--Dryden.
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putter around
(wn) | putter around
v 1: move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, {potter
around}, putter around] |
putterer
(wn) | putterer
n 1: a person who putters about [syn: putterer, potterer] |
shot putter
(wn) | shot putter
n 1: an athlete who competes in the shot put |
sputter
(wn) | sputter
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering
explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn:
spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering,
sputter, splutter, sputtering]
2: an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage)
[syn: sputter, splutter]
v 1: make an explosive sound; "sputtering engines"
2: cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The
solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the
dust"
3: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber,
scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter]
4: utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage [syn: sputter,
splutter]
5: spit up in an explosive manner [syn: splutter, sputter,
spit out] |
sputtering
(wn) | sputtering
n 1: the noise of something spattering or sputtering
explosively; "he heard a spatter of gunfire" [syn:
spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering,
sputter, splutter, sputtering] |
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