Which preposition to use with puttered

about Occurrences 3%

The day after they had matriculated, J.W. and Marty were putting their room to rightsoh, yes, they thought it would be well to share the same roomand as they puttered about they reviewed the happenings of the first day.

around Occurrences 3%

"In the first seven months he puttered around the little fumers, with an occasional excursion up to the main crater.

with Occurrences 2%

Over his head as he putters with his soap and brushes, there hangs a rusty sign proclaiming that he is famous for his cleaning all round the world.

at Occurrences 1%

At last he gin in and Jabez attacked it agin, and tinkered and puttered at it all day, I watchin'

down Occurrences 1%

A moment later, the clutch snarled, and the machine puttered down the street.

of Occurrences 1%

She hath an awkward trick (to say no worse of it) of reading in company: at which times she will answer yes or no to a question, without fully understanding its purportwhich is provoking, and derogatory in the highest degree to the dignity of the putter of the said question.

Which preposition to use with  puttered