putt
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: pŭt, IPA(key): /pʌt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): [pʰat]
- (Canada, US) IPA(key): [pʰʌt], [pʰət]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [pʰɐt]
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /pʊt/, IPA(key): [pʰʊt]
Audio (AU) (file) - Homophone: put (accents without foot-strut split)
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”).[1] Compare 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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.[2] All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.
Noun edit
putt (plural putts)
- (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
Translations edit
Verb edit
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
- (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
- 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.
Translations edit
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Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.
Noun edit
putt (plural putts)
- (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
- (British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.
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Verb edit
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
- To make a putting sound.
- (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
- To move along slowly.
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Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putt)
- Obsolete form of put.
- c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:
- We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.
References edit
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ Heiner Gillmeister, “Über den Ursprung des Golfspiels”, March 7, 2016.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
putt
- imperative of putte
Scots edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English putten.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle puttin, simple past putt, past participle putt)
- to put
Usage notes edit
- Note the pronunciation.
Synonyms edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Of imitative origin (also compare English pout).
Adjective edit
putt
- sour and disappointed; sulky
Declension edit
| Inflection of putt | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | putt | — | — |
| Neuter singular | putt | — | — |
| Plural | putta | — | — |
| Masculine plural3 | putte | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | putte | — | — |
| All | putta | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Noun edit
putt c
Declension edit
| Declension of putt | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | putt | putten | puttar | puttarna |
| Genitive | putts | puttens | puttars | puttarnas |