Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) To engage in meaningless activity. vb. (context US English) To engage in meaningless activity.
WordNet
v. move around aimlessly [syn: putter, potter, potter around]
Usage examples of "putter around".
He watched Chiun putter around until the last problem of the day had been postponed on the last of his television shows.
And there's no comparison to that mindless one-two-three the physicists putter around in.
And three Detroit engineers would putter around with this big old Nash with wings, and you’.
They take second and third jobs, putter around at night while their spouses sink into exhaustion, and otherwise seem to lead full, alert and constructive lives.
He began to putter around the house, helping me out where he could, although I ran a tidy one-man operation, and he was more in the way than anything.
It's Saturday, so I was going to putter around in the shop anyway.
They could rig up a rough laboratory there, putter around for hours with the smelly corpse, and be quite happy.
Yet after I did land, the pilot had to putter around in the rainstorm a while before he could find out just where to drop the bomb in order to have it land accurately without endangering his own craft.