putt
nounEtymology
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
- derived from *putōną✻
Definitions
The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
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.
A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by…
A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
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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.
- We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
Small cart.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for putt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA