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put-put

NOUN
  1. a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)

How To Use put-put In A Sentence

  • I waved as I put-putted past each packed bus stop.
  • My canal-side atelier is filled with the sights and sounds of tall-masted old sailboats and put-putting tugboats outside and that ochreous Dutch sunlight pouring in during the afternoon. Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland
  • As the machine put-putted, the lights came on gradually.
  • The boys had been put-putting around us slowly in the boat, keeping watch. Secret of the Night Ponies
  • A few kilometers from Cannes, I pass the two-tone bordeaux/cream deuche put-putting along in the right lane. Words in a French Life
  • It's 6.15 pm on an early Autumn evening and we are put-putting straight into the heart of the sun set.
  • I didn't really have time to put-put along, so I slipped into my ‘road rage’ mood and listened to hard rock on some radio station.
  • The chosen tore through the clamoring crowds and jammed onto the back of his three-wheeler put-putting on the roadside. The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Mr Sportage seemed to run out of puff after that, and by comparison put-putted the last 15 minutes before home.
  • When running it had a very distinctive sound which quickly earned it the name of Put-put or Phut-phut.
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