different between putt vs putti

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?t, IPA^(key): /p?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [p?at]
• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): [p??t]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [p??t]
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): [p??t]
• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophone: put (etymology 2)

Etymology 1

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

Noun

putt (plural putts)

1. (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)

1. (golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter.

Related terms

• pitch and putt
• putter
• putting green

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

Noun

putt (plural putts)

1. (onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. (Britain, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

Translations

Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putted)

1. To make a putting sound.
2. (motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
3. To move along slowly.

Translations

Etymology 3

Verb

putt (third-person singular simple present putts, present participle putting, simple past and past participle putt)

1. Obsolete form of put.
   • c. 1691, John Audrey, 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

putt

1. imperative of putte

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/

Verb

putt (third-person singular present putts, present participle puttin, past putt, past participle putt)

1. to put

Usage notes

• Note the pronunciation.

Synonyms

• pit

Swedish

Adjective

putt

1. sour and disappointed; sulky

Declension

Noun

putt c

1. (golf) a putt

Declension

Related terms

• putta
• puttning

Westrobothnian

Noun

putt m

1. Dark hole, bottomless depth.

Related terms

• helpytte

See also

• pott

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?ti/

Noun

putti

1. plural of putto

Anagrams

• tit up, titup

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?put?i/, [?put??i]
• Rhymes: -ut?i
• Syllabification: put?ti

Noun

putti

1. (golf) putt

Declension

Related terms

• putata

Anagrams

• putit, tiput

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??ht?/
• Rhymes: -?ht?

Noun

putti m (genitive singular putta, nominative plural puttar)

1. (colloquial) a finger

Declension

Synonyms

• (finger): fingur

Derived terms

• fara á puttanum
• putta
• puttaferðalangur

Italian

Noun

putti m

1. plural of putto

Tausug

Noun

putti

1. rich coconut milk