puit

• IPA^(key): /pjuːt/
• Rhymes: -uːt

Borrowed from French puits (“well”).

• puits

puit (plural puits)

1. (obsolete) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
   • 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:

     Further on is a puit or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.

   • 1911, Clive Holland, The Belgians at Home, page 211:

     And then a quarter of an hour later she would say, whilst explaining to a French party: “ There were 800 English and 200 French found at the bottom of the puit at the finish of that terrible day, mesdames et messieurs."

   • 1998, Karl Smith, The Atlas Mountains, page 105:

     Cross the ravine, and a further 10 mins. across the plain see trees on the R. These trees mark the site of the puit ( well ) at El Mersse.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puit (plural puits)

1. An insectivorous shore bird, the brown-headed gull.
   • 1895, Peter Henry Emerson, Birds, Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, page 308:

     But these pirates are always successful, as are the rats, who steal at dead of night upon the eggs, devouring them; for your rat is a deadly enemy to the puit, and many another bird besides.

• Tupi, ptui, tipu

From Middle Dutch puut (“frog”), from Old Dutch pūt, from Proto-Germanic *put-, *pud- (“to swell”). Compare dialectal English pod (“belly”), pout (“a kind of fish”), Swedish puta (“to pout”). Akin to French bouder.

• IPA^(key): /pœy̯t/

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puit m (plural puiten, diminutive puitje n)

1. (archaic, dialectal) a frog

• kikker m
• (archaic) vors m

• puiten (verb)
• puitebloot (adjective)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

puit (genitive puidu, partitive puitu)

1. wood

• IPA^(key): /ˈpui̯t/, [ˈpui̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -uit
• Syllabification^(key): puit
• Hyphenation^(key): puit

puit

1. second-person singular present/past indicative of puida

puit

1. second-person singular past indicative of pukea

• tipu