putt
/pʌt/
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putt noun: the act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green. Also the obsolete form of put.
Noun (1)
putt (plural putts)
- The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
Verb (1)
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
- 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
Noun (2)
putt (plural putts)
- A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
- A motorcycle.
Verb (2)
putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
- To make a putting sound.
- To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
- To move along slowly.
Noun (3)
putt (plural putts)
- Small cart.
Also used as
putt is also the obsolete form of put.
putt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
putt in Hindi
- पुट
putt in Tamil
- புட்
putt in Bengali
- পুট, পুটে
putt in Telugu
- పుట్, పుట్ట్, పూట్
More languagesFewer languages
- putt in Malayalam
- പുട്ട്
- putt in Kannada
- ಪುಟ್
- putt in Punjabi
- ਪੁੱਟ
- putt in Odia
- ପୁଟ୍, ପୁଟ୍ କରିବା
- putt in Nepali
- पुट्ट, पुट्ट गर्न
Examples of putt in a sentence
- She managed to anhyzer the disc around the boulder to make the putt for a birdie.
- This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.
- At this resort there's an 9-hole golf course, a small putting green and an 18-hole pitch and putt course.
Forms of putt
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | putts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | putts |
| present participle | putting |
| past participle | putted |
| past | putted |
| past participle | putt |
| past | putt |
Origin of putt
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).
Words formed from putt
Phrases with putt
Words that rhyme with putt
Questions about putt
- What does putt mean?
- Putt means the act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
- What is putt in Hindi?
- Putt in Hindi is पुट. See Putt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is putt?
- Putt can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce putt?
- Putt is pronounced /pʌt/.
- What is the plural of putt?
- The plural of putt is putts.
Words near putt in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: putt (page history and authors); putt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); putt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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