The word 'putter' is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe the action of playing golf with a short-shafted golf club. For example, "The golfer puttered his way to the edge of the green."
We just putter along, thinking tea is good; but it's not good.
Distracted and delayed, the world's greatest putter missed.
The "Gang of Eight", he continued, would unveil their proposal in days; it would putter through the Judiciary Committee this month, and reach the Senate floor in May.
This is the notorious individual, who, in Liverpool, was the great putter up of bank-note robberies, and whose adroitness made him a general banker for the "swell mob" in London.
If you make the wrong choice you cannot visit another market because fuel is costly and each market is open for only a couple of hours before dawn and it takes that long for your boat to putter from one to the next.
And the euro zone will therefore putter along in future rather than hum at its economic potential.
Mr Bernanke has likened the Fed's "gradualist" approach to that of a golfer not quite sure of his putter.
Bernhard Langer offers a more hopeful example: he cured his yips by switching to a long-handled putter.
THAT Americans drive brash gas-guzzling cars whereas Europeans putter around in fuel-sipping runabouts is as enduring a stereotype as any.
In response he published a collection of essays entitled "Golfing for Cats", with a picture on the front cover of a moggy in Nazi uniform wielding a putter.
As the Boston Globe put it, Block Island needs this visit "like a fish needs a bicycle".It is a hard business, being a president: you are barely permitted a holiday, then every swish of your putter or swirl of your rod is monitored, and when you decide to pop into somewhere nice everyone condemns you for it.
