puttとは

語源 1

From Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a hit”). The 古期英語 putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.^[1]

名詞

putt (複数形 putts)

1. (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

動詞

putt (三人称単数 現在形 putts, 現在分詞 putting, 過去形および過去分詞形 putted)

1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

関連する語

• pitch and putt
• putter
• putting green

語源 2

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

名詞

putt (複数形 putts)

1. (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. (Britain, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

動詞

putt (三人称単数 現在形 putts, 現在分詞 putting, 過去形および過去分詞形 putted)

1. To make a putting sound.
2. (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. To move along slowly.

動詞

putt (三人称単数 現在形 putts, 現在分詞 putting, 過去形および過去分詞形 putt)

1. Obsolete form of put.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Aubrey

     We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

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