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put
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *p?tian ("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung (“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian (“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *put?n? (“to stick, stab”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud- (“to shoot, sprout”). Compare also related Old English p?tan (“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten (“to set, plant”), Danish putte (“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta (“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte (“to set, put”), Norwegian pota (“to poke”), Icelandic pota (“to poke”), Dutch peuteren (“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”). Outside of Germanic possibly comparable to Sanskrit ????? (bundá, “arrow”).
Alternative forms
- putt (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: po?ot, IPA(key): /p?t/, [p???t]
- Rhymes: -?t
Verb
put (third-person singular simple present puts, present participle putting, simple past put, past participle put or (UK dialectal) putten)
- To place something somewhere.
- To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
- (finance) To exercise a put option.
- To express something in a certain manner.
- 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
- All this is ingeniously and ably put.
- 1846, Julius Hare, The Mission of the Comforter
- (athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
- To attach or attribute; to assign.
- (obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
- 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
- Put the perceptions and you put the mind.
- Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say.
- 1708-1710, George Berkeley, Philosophical Commentaries or Common-Place Book
- (obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
- 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- 1722, Jonathan Swift, The Last Speech of Ebenezer Elliston
- (mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- putten
Noun
put (countable and uncountable, plural puts)
- (business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
- (finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
- c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- c. 1900, Universal Cyclopaedia Entry for Stock-Exchange
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
- (uncountable) An old card game.
Translations
See also
- Stock option on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- call
- option
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt (“stub, thicker end”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?t/
- Homophone: putt
Noun
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.
- 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":
- Queer Country-puts extol Queen Bess's reign,
- And of lost hospitality complain.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 244:
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chaw-bacon, and numberless other pretty names.
- 1870, Frederic Harrison, "The Romance of the Peerage: Lothair," Fortnightly Review:
- Any number of varlet to be had for a few ducats and what droll puts the citizens seem in it all!
- 1733, James Bramston, "The Man of Taste":
Etymology 3
Old French pute.
Noun
put (plural puts)
- (obsolete) A prostitute.
References
Anagrams
- PTU, TPU, UTP, tup
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch put, from Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
Noun
put (plural putte)
- well; pit
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?put/
- Rhymes: -ut
Verb
put
- third-person singular present indicative form of pudir
- second-person singular imperative form of pudir
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?t
- IPA(key): /?p?t/
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch put, from Old Dutch *putti, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus.
Noun
put m (plural putten, diminutive putje n)
- pit, well
- drain
Derived terms
- afvoerput
- beerput
- opvangput
- putjesschepper
- putlucht
- regenput
- waterput
Descendants
- Afrikaans: put
- ? Sranan Tongo: peti
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
put
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of putten
- imperative of putten
Finnish
Interjection
put
- (onomatopoeia) putt, imitating the sound of a low speed internal combustion engine, usually repeated at least twice: put, put.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /py/
- Homophones: pu, pue, pues, puent, pus, pût
Verb
put
- third-person singular past historic of pouvoir
Kalasha
Noun
put
- Alternative spelling of putr
Latvian
Verb
put
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of put?t
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of put?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of put?t
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of put?t
Romanian
Verb
put
- first-person singular present indicative of pu?i
- first-person singular present subjunctive of pu?i
- third-person plural present indicative of pu?i
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Scots put (“push”). Ultimately from the root of English put.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?u?t?/
Verb
put (past phut, future putaidh, verbal noun putadh, past participle pute)
- push, shove
- jostle
- press
Derived terms
- put ann
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Scots pout, from Middle English pulet (“a pullet”).
Noun
put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)
- young grouse, pout (Lagopus lagopus)
Mutation
Etymology 3
Probably of North Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *p?to (“swollen”), from Proto-Indo-European *bu- (“to swell”), see also Sanskrit ??????? (budbuda, “bubble”).
Noun
put m (genitive singular puta, plural putan)
- (nautical) large buoy, float (generally of sheepskin, inflated)
- corpulent person; any bulging thing
- shovelful, sod, spadeful
- (medicine) bruised swelling
Mutation
References
- “put” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “put”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page 284
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *p?t?, from Proto-Indo-European *ponth?-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pû?t/
Noun
p?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- road
- way
- path
- trip, journey
- (figurative and idiomatic senses) method, means
Declension
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *pl?t?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pût/
Noun
p?t f (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- complexion, skin hue, tan
- body as a totality of physical properties and sensitivities
Declension
Etymology 3
From p?t (“road, path, way”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pû?t/
Preposition
p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????) (+ genitive case)
- to, toward
Etymology 4
From p?t (“road, path, way”).
Alternative forms
- (genitive plural) pút?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pû?t/
Adverb
p?t (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- time (with adjectives, ordinals and demonstratives indicating order in the sequence of actions or occurrences)
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English foot.
Noun
put
- foot
put From the web:
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- what putter should i buy
- what puts out fire
- what puts you to sleep
- what putter is best for me
putz
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?ts/
- Rhymes: -?ts
Noun
putz (plural putzes)
- (slang, derogatory) Fool, idiot.
- (slang, derogatory) Jerk.
- Synonym: schmuck
- (slang) Penis.
- Synonym: schmuck
Derived terms
- putzhead, putz-head, putz head
Verb
putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)
- (slang) Waste time.
- Synonym: futz
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.
Alternative forms
- Putz
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?ts/
- Rhymes: -?ts
Noun
putz (plural putzes)
- A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.
- 1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:
- The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.
- 1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:
Verb
putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)
- (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.
Portuguese
Etymology
Probably a euphemistic form of puta.
Alternative forms
- puts
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?puts/, [?put?s]
Interjection
putz
- (slang) Used to emphasize something that has gone wrong.
- Synonym: putz grila
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