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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
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The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
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cmn 推球 (act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green) · fi putti (act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green) · mi tīpao (act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green) · fi puttaus (act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green)
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
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To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole. 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
cmn 推球 (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · nl putten (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · ca fer un putt (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · da putte (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · mi tīpao (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · fi putata (to lightly strike a golf ball with a putter) · sv putta (to lightly strike a golf ball with 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.
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fi prätkä (slang: motorcycle) · fi putputus (sound)
We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir. c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire: