putt
The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting greenThe act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
» I wish I had putted better.
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4 sensesThe act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter
(onomatopoeic)A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
(UK, slang)A motorcycle.
Small cart.
Examples
7 sentencesI wish I had putted better.
I wish that I had putted better.
I missed the putt.
That was an excellent putt.
deDas war ein tolles Einputten. — Esperantostern
Tom made a good putt.
Origin
Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The OldBorrowed 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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).
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