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gutty

gutty

1 9.9
Made from gutta-percha, the material used for early golf balls
  • adjective
  • /ˈɡʌti/
  • Archaic
translation icon : gutta
  • The golfer carefully selected a gutty ball for the game, appreciating its historical importance.

Examples

  • When playing golf in the late 1800s, many players preferred the gutty for its durability and performance.

  • All the family were there—his mother, now aging a little, but in her day a demon with the gutty ball; his wife, at one time Woman Champion of America; his three sons, Baltusrol, Wykagyl, and National; and his two daughters, Troon and Prestwick.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • At the museum, we saw a display of gutty golf balls from the early days of the sport.

Surface Forms

gutty positive

Morphology

gutty = gutta-percha (semi-transparent) = gutta-percha + y

The adjective is formed from the material name plus -y, but the base is a specialized loanword that most learners will not know.

Etymology

Gutty comes from the material gutta-percha, a hard form of tree getah that means 'sap' in Malay, and this material was used to make early golf balls. So a gutty golf ball was one made of that hardened sap.