divot

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke
  2. noun a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)

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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