putterings, 592-589
cluttering, puttering ₁
One of the things I
puttering, and playing the hi-fi
with that telepathy people develop when ₂
complicated by a puttering
any puttering carpentry of
squeezing words
one labored sentence
and I still puttering
a puttering, part-time job ₃
puttering, cluttering,
making messes and leaving them about ₄
sources :
- Charles Godfrey Leland, “Pau-Puck Kee-wis,” in Mother Pitcher’s Poems for Little People (Philadephia: Frederick Leypoldt, 1864) : 49-50 / more at putterings 592
- Diane DiPrima, excerpt from Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969)
in June Skinner Sawyers, ed., The Greenwich Village Reader : Fiction, Poetry, and Reminiscences, 1872-2002 (Cooper Square Press, 2001) : 432-439 (438) / more at putterings 590 - four instances, from Percy Shostac, 14th Street : A Novel in Verse. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930) / more at putterings 589
- Dorothy Barclay, Understanding the City Child : A Book for Parents (1959) : 73 / more at putterings 591
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