Usually means: Engaged in aimless or ineffective activity.
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  1. puttered: Merriam-Webster
  2. puttered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. puttered: Vocabulary.com
  4. puttered: Wordnik
  5. puttered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. puttered: Wiktionary
  7. Puttered, puttered: Dictionary.com
  8. puttered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Puttered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Puttered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. puttered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. puttered: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. puttered: Encyclopedia

(Note: See putter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (putter)

verb:  (intransitive) To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks.
noun:  One who puts or places.
noun:  A shot-putter.
noun:  (mining) One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, to transport the coal mined by the getter.
noun:  (golf) A golf club specifically intended for a putt.
noun:  (golf) A person who is taking a putt or putting.
verb:  (intransitive) To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating.
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