"putter around" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "putters around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttering around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttered around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttered around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "putter around (third-person singular simple present putters around, present participle puttering around, simple past and past participle puttered around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 January 21, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)",
          "text": "I can't wait until I'm old enough to \"putter around\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in meaningless activity."
      ],
      "id": "en-putter_around-en-verb-LksiqgFb",
      "links": [
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "meaningless",
          "meaningless"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To engage in meaningless activity."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "UK"
          ],
          "word": "potter around"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "word": "vagar"
        },
        {
          "code": "oc",
          "lang": "Occitan",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "word": "trabalhejar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "krzątać się"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "word": "ficar de enrolação"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "word": "prčkati"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
          "word": "petljati"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "putter around"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "putters around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttering around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttered around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "puttered around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "putter around (third-person singular simple present putters around, present participle puttering around, simple past and past participle puttered around)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (around)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 January 21, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)",
          "text": "I can't wait until I'm old enough to \"putter around\".",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in meaningless activity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "engage",
          "engage"
        ],
        [
          "meaningless",
          "meaningless"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To engage in meaningless activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "potter around"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "word": "vagar"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "word": "trabalhejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "krzątać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "word": "ficar de enrolação"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "word": "prčkati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to engage in meaningless activity",
      "word": "petljati"
    }
  ],
  "word": "putter around"
}