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Putt
Definitions
- 1 The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
- 2 A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines. onomatopoeic
- 3 Small cart.
- 4 hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter wordnet
- 5 A motorcycle. British, slang
- 1 To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
"There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole."
- 2 To make a putting sound.
- 3 Obsolete form of put. alt-of, obsolete
"We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir."
- 4 strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter wordnet
- 5 To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride. slang
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- 6 hit a putt wordnet
- 7 To move along slowly.
Etymology
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.
Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.
Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).
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