putt

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See also: put, Putt, and Pütt

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

  1. (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
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Verb[edit]

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.
    • 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.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

Noun[edit]

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. (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)

  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.
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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)

  1. 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]

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  2. ^ Heiner Gillmeister, “Über den Ursprung des Golfspiels”, March 7, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

putt

  1. 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)

  1. to put

Usage notes[edit]

  • Note the pronunciation.

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Of imitative origin (also compare English pout).

Adjective[edit]

putt

  1. 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

  1. (golf) a putt
  2. a light push or shove (more generally)

Declension[edit]

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

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