putt

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

Verb

1. To make a putting sound.
2. (slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. To move along slowly.

Verb

Obsolete form of put.

Synonyms

putting

chuck

pat

Translations

putten

fer un putt

Putt

ελαφρό κτύπημα

poter

putt

putt

putten

tacada leve

إضرب

tirar al hoyo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʌt/

Etymology

Cognate with Middle Dutch: putten

Cognate with Old English: putian

In summary

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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