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puttie

puttie is the alternative form 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

Forms of puttie

pluralputties

Questions about puttie

What is puttie the alternative form of?
Puttie is the alternative form of puttee.

Words near puttie in the dictionary

  1. putters-on
  2. puttest
  3. putteth
  4. Puttgarden
  5. putti
  6. puttie
  7. puttied
  8. puttier
  9. puttiers
  10. putties
  11. puttiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puttie (page history and authors); puttee (page history and authors). 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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