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putt

UK/pʌt/ US/pʰat/ uncommon obsolete slang uk
verb (2) noun (1)

verb

1.

strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter

  • “he putted the ball several feet past the hole”
2.

: hit a putt

  • “he lost because he putted so poorly”

noun

1.

hitting a golf ball on the putting surface with a putter

  • “his putting let him down today”
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Origin

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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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