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divot

di·vot

UK/ˈdɪvət/ US/ˈdɪvɪt/ uncommon

noun

1.

(golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke

  • “it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot”
2.

a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)

Origin

1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).

Phrases

  • fail and divot
  • feal and divot

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