put-put

English

Verb

put-put (third-person singular simple present put-puts, present participle put-putting, simple past and past participle put-putted)

  1. Alternative spelling of putt-putt
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 119:
      Turning only slowly, the early medieval watermill put-putted along with the horsepower of a modern moped or small motorbike.