different between putt vs putz

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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 1

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

putz (plural putzes)

1. (slang, derogatory) Fool, idiot.
2. (slang, derogatory) Jerk.

   Synonym: schmuck
3. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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.

Verb

putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)

1. (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

1. (slang) Used to emphasize something that has gone wrong.

   Synonym: putz grila