different between putt vs putu

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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

Etymology

From Afrikaans putu, or its source, Zulu uphuthu.

Pronunciation

• (General South African) IPA^(key): /?p?t?/, /?pu?t?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pu?tu?/

Noun

putu (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 328:

     Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury 2013, p. 242:

     Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).

Related terms

• putu pap

Translations

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *putu(-) (“hole through something, to pierce, has a hole”), from Proto-Eskimo *putru(-) (“hole, to pierce”). Compare putuvoq (“is perforated”), and pussorpoq (“has a hole worn in it”).

Noun

putu (plural putut)

1. hole

Further reading

• DAKA

Hopi

Adjective

putu

1. heavy (possessing great weight)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay putu, from Tamil ?????? (pu??u, “puttu”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?putu]
• Hyphenation: pu?tu

Noun

putu (first-person possessive putuku, second-person possessive putumu, third-person possessive putunya)

1. (cooking) kue putu: an Indonesian (kue) traditional cylindrical-shaped and green-colored steamed cake.

Further reading

• “putu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?putu/

Noun

putu

1. accusative singular of puta
2. instrumental singular of puta

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pu?tu]

Verb

putu

1. third-person singular simple perfect indicative of putea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

putu m

1. dative/locative singular of put

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of puto

Noun

putu (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. accusative singular of puta

Tausug

Noun

putu

1. A confection made by steaming grated cassava.