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発音

• IPA: /pʌnt/
• (Northern England) IPA: /pʊnt/
• 韻: -ʌnt

名詞

punt (plural punts)

1. (nautical) A narrow shallow boat, square at both ends, traditionally propelled by a pole.

   Near-synonym: pontoon

派生語

動詞

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
2. Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.

派生語

語源 2

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt. Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

発音

• IPA: /pʌnt/
• 韻: -ʌnt

動詞

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
   • 1975, Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, page 133:

     At the dump he emptied the station wagon quickly and only once punted a bag of refuse, exploding it like a pinata at a Mexican Christmas.

   • 2019, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow, One World, →ISBN, page 100:

     He even hated pets—I once saw him punt a cat.

   1. (rugby, American football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
   2. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
      • 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC‎:

        With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball.

2. (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
   • 2014, John Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 91:

     The briefer reported it had been terminated on orders from Secretary Schlesinger, but attributed this to a sense Shamrock produced little, not to the fact it had been discovered. The NSA briefer punted on whether Fort Meade had been reading Americans' private messages, ...

   • 2024 May 16, Brett Worthington, “Labor delays bid for extraordinary immigration powers despite claims of urgency”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

     The federal government has punted bringing forward extraordinary immigration powers that just weeks ago it was saying were so urgent they needed to be rushed through the parliament.

3. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
   • ca. 2002, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato, “Basic Work Cycle”, in Version Control with Subversion‎:

     Punting: Using svn revert¶ If you decide that you want to throw out your changes and start your edits again (whether this occurs after a conflict or anytime), just revert your changes

4. (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
5. (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
   • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows, page 236:

     The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.

   • 2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting‎, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21:

     If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!

派生語

名詞

punt (plural punts)

1. (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.

派生語

参考

• drop kick

語源 3

Borrowed from French pointe or Spanish punto (“point”). Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, and punto.

発音

• IPA: /pʌnt/
• 韻: -ʌnt

名詞

punt (plural punts)

1. (obsolete) A point in the game of faro.
2. (obsolete) The act of playing basset, baccarat, faro, etc.
3. A bet or wager.

   Anyone up for a punt on Randwick?

4. (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs.
   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 123:

     Did I actually back a winner and finish in front on the punt?

   • 2001 December 31, The Riverine Herald, Echua, Victoria, page 12, column 3:

     Wishing you all happy new year and a prosperous one on the punt.

5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
   • 2025 July 12, Leslie Hook, quoting Tom Price, “Copper traders’ bet on tariffs pays off to the tune of $300mn”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

     “Months ago, copper traders worldwide took a punt that Trump's tariff pitch for their market was real, not bluster. […] ”

6. A wild guess.

   Synonym: stab

7. The indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
8. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.

派生語

動詞

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To play basset, baccara, faro, etc.
   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Here it was that, guarded by double doors, Sir Francis smoked cigars, and read Bell’s Life in London, and went to sleep after dinner, when he was not smoking over the billiard-table at his clubs, or punting at the gambling-houses in Saint James’s.

2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
   • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

     She heard […] of his punting at gaming tables.

   • 2004, John Buglear, “Is it worth the risk? – introducing probability”, in Quantitative methods for business: the A-Z of QM‎, →ISBN, page 339:

     Whether you want to gamble on a horse race, bet on which player will score first in a game of football, have a punt on a particular tennis player winning a grand slam event, you are buying a chance, a chance which is measured in terms of probability, ‘the odds’.

   • 2006 June 23, Dan Roebuck, “Eriksson's men still worth a punt”, in The Guardian‎:

     Eriksson's men still worth a punt

   • 2009 November 3, Sarah Collerton, “Cup punt not child's play”, in ABC News‎:

     Australians have a reputation for being keen to bet on two flies climbing up a wall and today young ones often take a casual classroom punt

3. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.

関連する語

• punter

語源 4

Borrowed from Irish punt, from 中期英語 pund. Doublet of funt, pfund, pood, and pound.

発音

• IPA: /pʊnt/
• 韻: -ʊnt

名詞

punt (plural punts)

1. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.

Further reading

• Punt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Punt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)