<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to busy or occupy oneself in a leisurely, casual, or ineffective manner: to putter in the garden.</li><li>to move or go in a specified manner with ineffective action or little energy or purpose: to putter about the house on a rainy day.</li><li>to move or go slowly or aimlessly; loiter.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>puttering or ineffective action; dawdling.</li><li>a phrase to spend or fill in a random, inconsequential, or unproductive way; fritter away; waste: We puttered the morning away.</li></ul>