Putt vs Putti - What's the difference?
putt | putti |
(golf) To lightly strike a golf ball with a putter on (or very near) a putting green.
(onomatopoeia) A regular sound characterized by the sound of "putt putt putt putt...", such as made by some slowly stroking internal combustion engines.
(British, motorcycling, slang) A motorcycle.
To make a putt sound.
(motorcycling, slang) To ride one's motorcycle, to go for a motorcycle ride.
To move along slowly.
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A representation, in a work of art (especially Renaissance or Baroque), of a small, naked, winged child; a cherub.
*2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 14:
*:The walls have ranks of white marble niches capped by huge marble scallops, and flanked by urns and flowers, drapes and putti .