puttee

See also: puttée

English

Etymology 1

Close-up of a World War I era United States Army infantryman's puttees.

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)

1. 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.

Related terms

• puttywalla

Translations

strip of cloth wound round the leg for protection

• Azerbaijani: dolaq, patava
• Bengali: পটি (bn) (pṭi)
• Bulgarian: навой m (navoj), партенка (bg) f (partenka)
• Burmese: ပတ်တီး (my) (patti:)
• French: bande molletière (fr) f
• Hindi: पट्टी (hi) f (paṭṭī)
• Ottoman Turkish: طولاق (dolak)
• Persian: پتک (fa) (patak)
• Sanskrit: पट्टी (sa) f (paṭṭī), पट्टिका (sa) f (paṭṭikā)
• Urdu: پٹی f (paṭṭī)
• Vietnamese: xà cạp

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

From put +‎ -ee.

Noun

puttee (plural puttees)

1. (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).