putt
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- 6
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- 8
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Definition of putt
9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
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noun
- The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
- (onomatopoeic)A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
- (British, slang)A motorcycle.
- Small cart.
verb
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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.”
- To make a putting sound.
- (slang)To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
- To move along slowly.
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(alt-of, obsolete)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.”
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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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
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