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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pʌt/

Etymology

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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