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divot

Pronunciation: /ˈdɪvət/

The English word “divot” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
  2. A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
  3. A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)

verb

  1. To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.

Etymology

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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