What's the difference between nutter and putter?

Nutter


Definition:

  • (n.) A gatherer of nuts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Obama could stop bending over backwards to appease Republican "nutters" (as Vince Cable calls them) and pitch an argument directly to voters.
  • (2) He sets about building a side in his own image, spending a club record £245,000 on “horrible in-your-face nutter” Andy Morrison to lead the defence.
  • (3) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
  • (4) The nutters and Brussels piss-artists are under lock and key.
  • (5) He claimed some of its supporters were fruitcakes and nutters, the phrase Cameron first used in 2006 , but has subsequently not repeated for fear of being seen to be insulting potential Tory supporters.
  • (6) "Some of the reporting – my position was grossly misrepresented – gave ammunition to the nutters out there," she says.
  • (7) It looks like there are some Yank nutters out there who are a lot more prepared for it all to go tits-up than I was that day.
  • (8) Here is Fisher a few weeks ago: “When people like me … enter the fray on marriage we now expect to be tagged ‘ultra-conservative’, ‘tedious imbecile’, ‘delusional nutter’, ‘evangelical clap-trapper’ and even ‘nauseating piece of filth’ not just in the anti-social media but even in the mainstream.
  • (9) I cannot wait to join Democrats across the country to celebrate our shared values, lay out a Democratic vision for the future, and support our nominee.” “The city of Philadelphia is excited and honored to be selected as the host city for the 2016 Democratic national convention,” Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter said in a statement.
  • (10) And, unsurprisingly, many of them have decided to give Ukip a free pass: “So what if that Farage has a few friends who are nutters,” they say.
  • (11) By reporting that he had a dozen ball-point pens in his breast pocket, I had allegedly implied that he was some kind of nutter.
  • (12) She told Sky News on Thursday: "We all have a responsibility, including the media, not to give airtime to extremist voices – idiots and nutters who speak for no one but themselves.
  • (13) It was an amazingly powerful moment that I think turned out just right,” Nutter said flatly.
  • (14) The cake display at Tribeca Bakery proves impossible to walk past, especially when the heavens open, so I spend a delicious hour in the window seat, watching giant waves and catching glimpses of two nutters on surfboards out in the water.
  • (15) Even United players had concerns, Lee Sharpe summing them up by blurting: “Yeah, right, the bloke’s a total nutter.” But Ferguson, under pressure to deliver the title in his seventh year in charge, erred on the side of adventure.
  • (16) One problem with this theory is that the Social Democrat's have ruled out a deal with their left-wing friends ( or 'nutters', as Open Europe puts it ).
  • (17) Ryanair has a bad environmental reputation, largely because its boss, Michael O'Leary, is fond of taking crude pot-shots at environmentalists, who he dubs " eco-nutters ".
  • (18) David Cameron, who once branded the party's supporters "fruitcakes, nutters and closet racists", has since called for them to return to the Conservatives if they wish to curb immigration and see a referendum on EU membership.
  • (19) Weale also argued that the BoE's monetary policy committee should resist acting like "inflation nutters", and use its new, more flexible mandate on inflation targeting wisely: The correct thing for policymakers to do would be to accept a modest degree of entrenchment of raised inflation expectations as a price worth paying for a smoother output path.
  • (20) February 12, 2015 Nutter earlier had pitched his city’s historic civic legacy as reason for its selection.

Putter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who puts or plates.
  • (n.) Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like.
  • (v. i.) To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Echocardiographic studies and radiological measurements of heart volume were performed in 30 female track athletes, 17 female shot-putters or javelin throwers, 12 nonathletic women and 8 female patients with arterial hypertension.
  • (2) Thomas Putter, director of Allianz Infrastructure, said this afternoon: "We believe that our offers fully reflect the value inherent in the business and we cannot justify an increase in our offers to our investors."
  • (3) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
  • (4) An economy that continues to putter along with high unemployment and mediocre growth will keep his approval ratings in negative territory.
  • (5) The Dow has puttered along at about a half-percentage-point down from Friday.
  • (6) Outside, the crowd puttered towards the exit, a recognisable song playing them out.
  • (7) smiles Jude Sayer, our guide to Norwich, as we stand by the river Wensum watching the motor boats puttering towards Wroxham.
  • (8) But before we do that, there's time to hand out a couple of minor gongs: The Award For The Team Top at Christmas Blowing It In The Most Spectacular Fashion: A few candidates for this, though no one has been top at the end of Christmas Day and finished outside the top four since 1972, with the exception of John Gregory's Aston Villa in 1998-99, who won just five of their 20 post Crimbo fixtures to putter sadly into sixth come May.
  • (9) He also found the sand on the 461-yard 10th, and again saved with the putter, by now his only friend.
  • (10) Under the guidance of PUTTER and REINEBOTH a first dispensary for tuberculous patients was established and became the prototype of similar institutions in Germany and other countries.
  • (11) In this paper the long term effect of conservative non-surgical treatment in two body-builders and one shot-putter is discussed, who reported the partial rupture while performing bench lifts with barbells.
  • (12) But, then I think about some of his expressed views about philosophers, especially in Small Gods and wonder what he really makes of us,” said South, citing Pratchett’s dictum that “whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it’s all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place.” “Of course, some of these observations hit close to home,” South added.
  • (13) The Australian also offered as good an argument as any for hideous, long-handled putters not really proving the answer to bother on the greens despite suggestions to the contrary.
  • (14) In almost every case, the regression functions for the shot-putters show an approximately linear relationship between the morphological variables and the result of the shot-putt.
  • (15) "At 18 you should putt well and he's a good putter.
  • (16) In the way that a scent lingers, I can still feel my Honda 125 puttering away while waves of heat from the endless sunshine and exhausts bounced to and fro between those venerable curving walls.
  • (17) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
  • (18) A minute later Enriqué tries a curler but the execeution isn't as good as his imagination and it putters two yards wide.
  • (19) The New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams is also competing as she seeks to recover her best form after surgery.
  • (20) It is not a collective panic in the chancelleries of the west that Johnson might make some inappropriate joke about Putin’s chest muscles or Soviet-era female shot-putters at a time of heightened political tension.