put-put

1. 1.

   a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)

   Broadergasoline engine

   colloquialism

Questions about put-put

What does put-put mean?

put-put means "a small gasoline engine (as on motor boat)".

How many syllables are in put-put?

put-put has 2 syllables: put--put. The stress falls on "put-".

Is put-put a common word?

put-put is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.