Meaning
A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
Etymology
Origin: Celtic languages
1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
sodturf
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