putt

Meanings

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

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

1. A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
2. A motorcycle.

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

1. Obsolete form of put.

1. Small cart.

Etymology

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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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