putt
/pʌt/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
- To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
- A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
- A motorcycle.
- To make a putting sound.
- To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
- To move along slowly.
- Obsolete form of put.
- Small cart.
Etymology / origin
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid. In Dutch, the word is instanced in a description of golf in an early seventeenth-century edition of Pieter van Afferden's Tyrocinium linguae latinae. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.
- *putōną(gem-pro)→
- putian(ang)→
- putten(Middle Dutch)→
- putt(Scots)→
- putt (English)
- Relations: bor, cog, cog, der
Related words
Descendant words
- putti(Finnish) (bor)
- Putt(German) (bor)
- pútta(Icelandic) (bor)
- パット(Japanese) (bor)
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