puttee
See also: puttée
English
Etymology 1
From Hindi पट्टी (paṭṭī, “bandage, strip of cloth”), from Sanskrit पट्टिका (paṭṭikā) of similar meaning.
Alternative forms
- puttie, putty
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpʌtiː/, /pʌˈtiː/
Noun
puttee (plural puttees)
- A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, page 113:
- he bought himself a pair of Fox's puttees for going out and polished his belt until it shone like mahogany, and I bet he was never pulled up for having dirty buttons.
- 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
- From Hui-li-chou northwards I was escorted by real soldiers, quite of the new service. They looked rather shipshape in khaki suits and puttees, and their guns were of a good model, but they handled them in careless fashion at first, belabouring laden ponies and even coolies who were slow in getting out of the way of my chair.
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Related terms
- puttywalla
Translations
strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection
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References
- McGregor, R.S, ed. The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, Oxford university press. 1993
- Platts, John T. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English Oxford. 1884.
- Cappeller, Carl A Sanskrit-English dictionary Bostin, Ginn and Co., 1891.
Etymology 2
put + -ee
Noun
puttee (plural puttees)
- (grammar) Something that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
- Coordinate term: putter
- 2012, Anetta Kopecka, Bhuvana Narasimhan, Events of Putting and Taking: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (page 55)
- […] for example, Gleitman (1990:30), in support of her claim for universal alignments of syntax and semantics, argues for the universal naturalness of three arguments for 'put' verbs (a putter, a puttee, and a location).