putt

Meanings

Noun

• The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
• A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
• A motorcycle.

Verb

• To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.
• To make a putting sound.
• To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
• To move along slowly.

Origin

• From Middle Dutch putten ("to dig a hit"). The Old English putian ("to push; thrust; put; place") derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
• Heiner Gillmeister, “”, March 7, 2016.
• , from putt-putt.