Added 8 October 2026
putt
/pʌt/ noun
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verb
noun
- 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 make a putting sound.
- To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
- To move along slowly.
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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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