putt

See also: put, Putt, and Pütt

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭt, IPA^(key): /pʌt/
• IPA^(key): [pʰat]
• IPA^(key): [pʰʌt]
• IPA^(key): [pʰɐt]

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ʌt

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

Noun

putt (plural putts)

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

Translations

act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推球 (zh)

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• Finnish: putti (fi), puttaus
• Maori: tīpao

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.

Related terms

• pitch and putt
• putter
• putting green

Translations

to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter

• Catalan: fer un putt (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 推球 (zh)

• Danish: putte
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• Dutch: putten (nl)
• Finnish: putata (fi)
• Maori: tīpao
• Swedish: putta (sv)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} poter (fr)
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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. (British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

Translations

sound

• Finnish: putputus
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slang: motorcycle

• Finnish: prätkä (fi)
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Verb

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.

Translations

to make a putt sound

• Finnish: putputtaa (fi)
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slang: to ride one's motorcycle

• Finnish: päristellä
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to move along slowly

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Etymology 3

Verb

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

1. Obsolete form of put.
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     We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

putt

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of putte

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʌt/

Verb

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

1. to put

Usage notes

• Note the pronunciation.

Synonyms

• pit

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Swedish

Adjective

putt

1. sour and disappointed; sulky

Declension

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

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

Related terms

• putta
• puttning

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Westrobothnian

Noun

1. Dark hole, bottomless depth.