different between divot vs divet

English

Etymology

1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), of unclear origin. The Scots word also appeared as devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v?t/

Noun

divot (plural divots)

1. (especially golf) A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York: Scribner, 1953, Chapter 8, p. 155,^[1]

     Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.

   • 2007, Lewis Crofts, The Pornographer of Vienna, London: Old Street, Chapter 1, p. 4,^[2]

     Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.

2. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.

Translations

Verb

divot (third-person singular simple present divots, present participle divoting, simple past and past participle divoted)

1. (transitive, especially golf) To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.

References

• “divot”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, ?ISBN
• Fenton, Alexander (1986): The Shape of the Past: Essays in Scottish Ethnology, Volume 2

English

Etymology

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Noun

divet (plural divets)

1. Alternative form of divot

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