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puttee

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈpʌtiː/Part of speech nounSorted eepttuStarts with PEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I

Word origin

From Hindi पट्टी (paṭṭī, “bandage, strip of cloth”), from Sanskrit पट्टिका (paṭṭikā) of similar meaning.

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  • 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.
  • […] 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).

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