putt

See also: put, Putt, and Pütt

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

Noun

putt (plural putts)

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

Verb

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 on (or very near) a putting green.
Translations
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

Noun

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.
Translations

Verb

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

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

Etymology 3

Verb

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

  1. Obsolete form of put.
    • John Aubrey (1626-1697)
      We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

References

  1. ↑ Heiner Gillmeister, “Über den Ursprung des Golfspiels”, March 7, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

putt

  1. imperative of putte

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʌt/

Verb

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

  1. to put

Usage notes

  • Note the pronunciation.

Synonyms

Swedish

Adjective

putt

  1. sour and disappointed; sulky

Declension

Inflection of putt
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular putt — —
Neuter singular putt — —
Plural putta — —
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.

Noun

putt c

  1. (golf) a putt

Declension

Declension of putt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative putt putten puttar puttarna
Genitive putts puttens puttars puttarnas

Westrobothnian

Noun

putt m

  1. dark hole, bottomless depth
  • helpytte
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.