punt
verb/pʌnt/
/pʌnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they punt | /pʌnt/ /pʌnt/ |
| he / she / it punts | /pʌnts/ /pʌnts/ |
| past simple punted | /ˈpʌntɪd/ /ˈpʌntɪd/ |
| past participle punted | /ˈpʌntɪd/ /ˈpʌntɪd/ |
| -ing form punting | /ˈpʌntɪŋ/ /ˈpʌntɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] punt (something) (+ adv./prep.) to travel in a punt, especially for pleasure
- We spent the day punting on the river.
- to go punting
- [transitive] punt something (+ adv./prep.) (in rugby or American football) to drop a ball from your hands and kick it before it reaches the ground
- I punted the ball upfield.
Word Originverb sense 1 Old English, from Latin ponto, denoting a flat-bottomed ferry boat; readopted in the early 16th cent. from Middle Low German punte or Middle Dutch ponte ‘ferry boat’, of the same origin. verb sense 2 mid 19th cent.: probably from dialect punt ‘push forcibly’. Compare with bunt.
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