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Definition putt

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

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.

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.

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.

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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