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- a golf club designed for use in putting, typically with a flat-faced mallet-like head（高尔夫）推杆, 轻击棒。
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- with adj. a golfer considered in terms of their ability at putting（高尔夫球）轻击者：
you'll need to be a good putter to break par.
为了能在标准杆数上胜出, 你一定要练好轻击本领。
- the rapid intermittent sound of a small petrol engine（小型汽油引擎的）噗噗声：
the putter of an old aeroplane.
一架旧飞机发出的噗噗声。
no obj.
1- make such a sound发出噗噗声, 噗噗作声：
I could hear the generator puttering away.
我能听到发电机噗噗地响着。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction move under the power of an engine that makes such a sound噗噗行进：
barges puttered slowly through the water.
驳船噗噗地慢慢驶过水面。
词源
1940s: imitative.