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put-put
[puht-puht, -puht]
noun
the sound made by a small internal-combustion engine or imitative of its operation.
Informal.a small internal-combustion engine, or something, as a boat or model airplane, equipped with one.
the sound of distant put-puts on the lake.
verb (used without object)
Informal.to operate with sounds suggesting a put-put, as a small motor or motor-driven device.
put-put
/ ˈʌˌʌ /
noun
a light chugging or popping sound, as made by a petrol engine
a vehicle powered by an engine making such a sound
verb
(intr) to make or travel along with such a sound
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of put-put1
Example Sentences
There’s a put-put sound when he puffs on the cigarette and a whimper from my mother.
The boat containing the two rough men was no longer in sight, but finally there drifted down on the night wind the soft put-put of the motor.
Pretty soon I heard the put-put of that scooter and along came the ice-cream man.
In a quiet place like that its put-put could be heard for miles.
"Why does n't Papa come in and say he is going to give me put-put?"
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