Meaning

4 senses

  1. To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

    strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter

  2. To make a putting sound.

  3. (slang)To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.

  4. To move along slowly.

Examples

7 sentences

  1. I wish I had putted better.

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  2. I wish that I had putted better.

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  3. I missed the putt.

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  4. That was an excellent putt.

    deDas war ein tolles Einputten.

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  5. Tom made a good putt.

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Origin

Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The Old

Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). 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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

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Forms

putts, putting, putted, putted
Base formputt · to putt
3rd person singularputts
Present participleputting
Past simpleputted
Past participleputted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyputt
he, she, itputts

Past simpleLesson

all personsputted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave putted
he, she, ithas putted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill putt

Word family

6 related words
Relatedputterputting
Derivedmini-puttmisputtoutputtputting green

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
putA1putativeputridputterputty
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