# putt
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: pŭt, IPA: /pʌt/
* (General Australian) IPA: [pʰat]
* (Canada, US) IPA: [pʰʌt], [pʰət]
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: [pʰɐt]
* (Northern England) IPA: /pʊt/, IPA: [pʰʊt]
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophone: put (without the foot-strut split)
* Rhymes: -ʌt

### Etymology 1

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

#### Noun

putt (plural putts)
* (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

##### Translations
#### Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
* (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
** 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.

##### Translations

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#### Related terms

* mini-putt
* pitch and putt
* putt from the rough
* putter
* putting green

### Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

#### Noun

putt (plural putts)
* (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
* (British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

##### Translations
#### Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)
* To make a putting sound.
* (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
* To move along slowly.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putt)
* Obsolete form of put.
** c. 1691, John Aubrey, Naturall Historie of Wiltshire:We have a custome, that when one sneezes, every one els putts off his hatt, and bowes, and cries God bless ye Sir.

### References

* ↑ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Putt”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
* ↑ Heiner Gillmeister, “Über den Ursprung des Golfspiels”, March 7, 2016.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

putt
* imperative of putte

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English putten.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʌt/

### Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle puttin, simple past putt, past participle putt)
* to put

#### Synonyms

* pit

## Swedish
### Etymology

Of imitative origin (also compare English pout).

### Adjective

putt
* sour and disappointed; sulky

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### Noun

putt c
* (golf) a putt
* a light push or shove (more generally)

#### Related terms

* putta
* puttning

### References

* putt in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* putt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* putt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)