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单词 put-put
释义 put-put
I. noun
or putt-putt \ˈpət|pət, usu -|pəd.+V\
(-s)
Etymology: imitative
1. : a sound made by or suggestive of the operation of a small gasoline engine
 < the put-put of its motor — Kay Boyle >
 < occasionally there would be the rapid put-put of conversation — Donn Byrne >
2. : a small gasoline engine or a vehicle or boat equipped with one
 < a phonograph and a radio and a flivver and a put-put for the canoe — Fannie Kilbourne >
 < experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used for the job — Time >
II. intransitive verb
or putt-putt \“\
(put-putted or putt-putted ; put-putted or putt-putted ; put-putting or putt-putting ; put-puts or putt-putts)
1. : to make put-puts : make the flat regularly repeated explosive sound of a small gasoline engine
 < his angry style, which keeps put-putting in a series of equal explosions like a one-cylinder gasoline engine — Malcolm Cowley >
2. : to proceed or operate with or as if with put-puts : travel in a vehicle or boat that put-puts
 < the launch went put-putting across the darkening harbor — William Irish >
 < put-put off across the water to visit the alligators — J.L.Jolley >
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