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put¹
- /pʊt/ Australia, US, New Zealand, UK
- [pʰʊʔt] Australia, US, New Zealand, UK
- /pɵt/ British, Southern, Standard
- [pʰɵʔt] British, Southern, Standard
- /pʉt/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /pʌt/ Southern US, obsolete
Sounds like putt (without the foot-strut split) · Rhymes with -ʊt
Where it comes from
From Middle English putten, pitten, pytten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-West Germanic *putōn, from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द (bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis (“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Low German paten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
verb puts · putting · put · putten
- To physically place (sth or sb swh). She put her books on the table.
- To place in abstract; to attach or attribute; to assign. The government put restrictions on vehicle imports.
- To bring or set (into a certain relation, state or condition). Theſe Verſes Originally Greek, were put in Latin,
- To express (something in a certain manner). When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. I put it to you, Sir, that you are a thief and a liar.
- To set as a calculation or estimate. They have put the cost of repairs at around £10 million.
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go. to put to sea
- To sell (assets) under the terms of a put option. He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.
- To throw with a pushing motion, especially in reference to the sport of shot put. (Do not confuse with putt.) He put the shot out beyond the 20-metre mark.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called “put”.
- To lay down; to give up; to surrender. No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
noun puts · putt
- Ellipsis of put option (“right to sell something at a predetermined price”)put option He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. the put of a ball
- An old card game. Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts. The usual games are all-fours, all-fives, cribbage, and put.
put²
- /pʌt/
Sounds like putt
Where it comes from
Unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
noun puts
- A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer. Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign, And of lost hospitality complain.
put³
Where it comes from
From Old French pute.
noun puts
- A prostitute. And Mrs. Penny-a-hoist Pim, said Mr. Gorman. That old put, said Mr. Nolan.
PUT⁴
noun PUTs
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