Putted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have placed something in a specified location in the past
2. to have executed an act of positioning or arranging in the past
3. having completed the act of moving an object to a desired point or placement during a previous time

Etymology: "Putted" is the past tense of "putt," the golf verb for tapping a ball across the green toward the hole. The verb itself is borrowed from Scots "putt," meaning "to put," so the golf sense grew out of an ordinary word for placing something. Scots "putt" traces back to the same Proto-Germanic root that gave English "put," and a Dutch golf description from the early seventeenth century shows the game's vocabulary already in use across the North Sea. Because "putt" is a verb of motion as well as placement, its ancestry is tangled. One suggested link is Middle Dutch "putten," meaning "to dig a pit," which may reflect the hole the ball is aimed at. Another possibility is that the word echoes the sound of a small engine, "putt-putt," though the golf sense is unlikely to come from that source. Its origin is uncertain, and the sources offer more than one candidate.

Synonyms: hit, struck, tapped, played, rolled

Antonyms: missed, failed, ignored, neglected, avoided