Meaning
The act of tapping a golf ball lightly on a putting green.
Etymology
Origin: Old English
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 The Old English putian (“to push; thrust; put; place”) derivation is commonly assumed, although no longer valid.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.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
putting
NYT Puzzle Appearances
Accepted in 14 recorded puzzles:
- 2026-07-11TAILNPU
- 2026-05-19UDELOPT
- 2026-05-18PAUHCTZ
- 2025-12-17PUATIDL
- 2025-09-29PAUTNOC
- 2025-07-07TARFDPU
- 2025-05-21TUEPMKN
- 2024-07-05PACENTU
- 2024-06-19TAUPIRY
- 2023-12-27TUAPMCH
- 2023-12-18TUAPCON
- 2023-10-24TUDPIEM
+2 earlier appearances in the archive.