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A puttee is a long strip of cloth that soldiers, especially in the late 1800s and the First World War, wrapped round each leg from the knee down to the boot. It was part of the uniform. It kept mud and stones out, held the trousers in, and supported the back of the lower leg. British and Indian army soldiers are the ones in most old photos. The word came into English from Hindi, where it meant a strip of cloth or a . Nobody wears puttees as regular kit now; you meet the word in history, museums, and old war stories. Though actually, it is easy to hear “put” in it and invent an English story; for this wrapping, the Hindi cloth-word is the one that holds. It is not putty, the soft paste used on windows, and it is not a kind of boot.
綁腿、裹腿
組成From Hindi paṭṭī (“bandage, strip of cloth”), from Sanskrit paṭṭikā of similar meaning. That is the origin of this army wrapping — not English put + -ee.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
putteenoun詞源 1/ˈpʌtiː/
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A strip of cloth wound round the leg, worn for protection or support by hikers, soldiers etc.
- 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.
- 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.
putteenoun詞源 2
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsSomething that is put somewhere; the object of the action of putting.
- […] 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).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。