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putt¹

  • /pʌt/
  • [pʰat] Australia
  • [pʰʌt] Canada, US
  • [pʰət] Canada, US
  • [pʰɐt] UK
  • /pʊt/ Northern England
  • [pʰʊt]

Sounds like put (without the foot-strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌt

Where it comes from

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.

noun putts

  1. The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

verb putts · putting · putted

  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.

putt²

  • /pʌt/
  • [pʰat] Australia
  • [pʰʌt] Canada, US
  • [pʰət] Canada, US
  • [pʰɐt] UK
  • /pʊt/ Northern England
  • [pʰʊt]

Sounds like put (without the foot-strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌt

Where it comes from

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

noun putts

  1. onomatopoeic A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
  2. UK, slang A motorcycle.

verb putts · putting · putted

  1. To make a putting sound.
  2. slang To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
  3. To move along slowly.

putt³

  • /pʌt/
  • [pʰat] Australia
  • [pʰʌt] Canada, US
  • [pʰət] Canada, US
  • [pʰɐt] UK
  • /pʊt/ Northern England
  • [pʰʊt]

Sounds like put (without the foot-strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌt

verb putts · putting · putt

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of put.put We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

putt⁴

  • /pʌt/
  • [pʰat] Australia
  • [pʰʌt] Canada, US
  • [pʰət] Canada, US
  • [pʰɐt] UK
  • /pʊt/ Northern England
  • [pʰʊt]

Sounds like put (without the foot-strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌt

Where it comes from

Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).

noun putts

  1. Small cart.

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