putt

• enPR: pŭt, IPA^(key): /pʌt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [pʰat]
• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): [pʰʌt]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [pʰɐt]
• Rhymes: -ʌt

From Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a hit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.[1]

putt (plural putts)

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

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)

1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

• pitch and putt
• putter
• putting green

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

putt (plural putts)

1. (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. (Britain, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)

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

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putt)

1. Obsolete form of put.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Aubrey

     We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

putt

1. imperative of putte

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

putt (third-person singular present putts, present participle puttin, past putt, past participle putt)

1. to put

• Note the pronunciation.

• pit

putt

1. sour and disappointed; sulky

putt c

1. (golf) a putt

• putta
• puttning

putt m

1. Dark hole, bottomless depth.

• helpytte

• pott