putteeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• puttie, putty

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpʌtiː/, /pʌˈtiː/

名詞

puttee (plural puttees)

1. A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 113:

     he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.

   • 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:

     From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.

関連する語

• puttywalla

参照

• McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford university press. 1993
• Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.
• Cappeller, Carl A Sanskrit-English dictionary Bostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.

語源 2

From put +‎ -ee.

名詞

puttee (plural puttees)

1. (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.

   Coordinate term: putter

   • 2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective, page 55:

     […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).

語源 3

名詞

puttee (plural puttees)

1. Alternative form of patti (“Punjab residential subdivision”).