Etymology

divot

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Today it means: A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof. Full definition →

Scots divot ← Scottish Gaelic dubhad
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  1. Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromdubhad
  2. Scots · derived fromdivot“turf”
  3. English todaydivot

1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).

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