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puttees

puttees is the plural of puttee.

Meaning of puttee

Noun (1)

puttee (plural puttees)

  1. A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
    • he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 113

Noun (2)

puttee (plural puttees)

  1. Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
    • […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55

Questions about puttees

What is puttees the plural of?
Puttees is the plural of puttee.

Words near puttees in the dictionary

  1. putted from the rough
  2. puttedst
  3. puttee
  4. putteedar
  5. putteedars
  6. puttees
  7. putten
  8. Puttenham
  9. putter
  10. putter about
  11. putter around

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