putt

• 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 the foot-strut split)
• Rhymes: -ʌt

Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”).^[1] Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.

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.
   • 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.

• mini-putt
• pitch and putt
• putt from the rough
• 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. (British, 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.
   • 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.

putt

1. imperative of putte

From Middle English putten.

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

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

1. to put

• pit

Of imitative origin (also compare English pout).

putt

1. sour and disappointed; sulky

putt c

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

• putta
• puttning

• putt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• putt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• putt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)