• 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(General Australian):

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• Homophone:put(without thefoot-strut split)
• Rhymes:-ʌt

Borrowed fromScotsputt(“to put”).^[1] CompareMiddle Dutchputten(“to dig a pit”). TheOld Englishputian(“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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'sTyrocinium linguae latinae.^[2] All derive fromProto-Germanic*putōną.

putt (pluralputts)

1. (golf) The act of tapping agolf ball lightly on aputting green.

putt (third-person singular simple presentputts,present participleputting,simple past and past participleputted)

1. (golf) To lightlystrike a golf ball with aputter.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, inThe 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 surelyputting for the hole.

• mini-putt
• pitch and putt
• putt from the rough
• putter
• putting green

Onomatopoeic, fromputt-putt.

putt (pluralputts)

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.

putt (third-person singular simple presentputts,present participleputting,simple past and past participleputted)

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 presentputts,present participleputting,simple past and past participleputt)

1. Obsolete form ofput.
   • c.1691,John Aubrey,Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:

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

putt

1. imperative ofputte

FromMiddle Englishputten.

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

putt (third-person singular simple presentputts,present participleputtin,simple pastputt,past participleputt)

1. toput

• pit

Ofimitative origin (also compareEnglishpout).

putt

1. sour anddisappointed;sulky

putt c

1. (golf) aputt
2. a lightpush orshove (more generally)

• putta
• puttning

• putt inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• putt inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• putt inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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