puttとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Scots putt (“to put”). Compare Middle Dutch putten (“to dig a pit”). The 古期英語 putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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. All derive from Proto-Germanic *putōną.

名詞

putt (plural putts)

1. (golf) The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.

動詞

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.
   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     There were the golfers. Was it possible that they were going on with their game? Yes, there was a fellow driving off from a tee, and that other group upon the green were surely putting for the hole.

派生語

語源 2

Onomatopoeic, from putt-putt.

名詞

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. (British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.

動詞

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.

語源 3

動詞

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

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

語源 4

Probable variant of pot (“vessel”) or butt (“cask”).

名詞

putt (plural putts)

1. Small cart.

参照

• "putt, n.1" in Oxford English Dictionary (online edition).