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put-|pʊt|
the stem of put v.1 in combination with adverbs, forming ns. derived from adverbial combinations of the verb (see put v.1 V.): as put-away Lawn Tennis and Rackets = kill n. 2 c; also attrib.; put-back, an act of putting back, or something that puts back; a set-back; put-by, an act of putting by or setting aside; put-down, (a) an act of putting (a person) down, a snub; also attrib.; (b) attrib., with reference to the act of alighting from a vehicle; † put-forth, an act of putting forth, or ? one who puts forth; in quot. an imposture, pretence, or ? an impostor, pretender; put-in, (a) U.S. colloq., one's turn to speak, one's affair; (b) the act of putting the ball into a scrum in rugby football; put-out, (a) an act of putting out (in quot., of putting a player ‘out’ at baseball); (b) U.S., an annoyance or inconvenience (? obs.); put-through, (a) a measure of the number of persons or objects which have been put through a process; (b) Econ., a financial transaction in which a broker arranges the sale and the purchase of shares simultaneously; also attrib. put-up, a place to ‘put up’ in, a lodging, ‘quarters’. Also rarely with a preposition, as put-upon, an act of ‘putting upon’ any one, or fact of being ‘put upon’ (see put v.1 23 f); an imposition. See also put-off n., put-on n.
1969New Yorker 14 June 75/1 He intercepts, and sends a light and graceful *putaway past Graebner, down the line. 1977Ibid. 25 July 70/2 Connors..also carried off the next three games on the strength of some fine, deep approaches and remarkable put-away volleys.
a1697J. Aubrey Lives, Hobbes (1898) I. 333 For ten yeares together his thoughts were..chiefly intent on his ‘De Cive’, and..his ‘Leviathan’, which was a great *putt-back to his mathematicall improvement. 1913D. H. Lawrence Love Poems p. lviii, An' mind... Ye slip not on the slippery ridge Of the thawin' snow, or it'll be A long put-back to your gran' marridge.
1549Latimer Serm. Ploughers (Arb.) 36 There be so manie put offes, so many *put byes, so many respectes, and considerations of worldly wisedome. 1549[see put-off 1]. 1628Feltham Resolves Ser. ii. lvi. (1647) 175 The cast of the eye, and the put-by of the turning hand.
1962J. Baldwin Another Country ii. iv. 335 Flattery will get you nowhere, son. Or is that a subtle *put-down? 1968Punch 23 Oct. 593/2 Michael Denison sustains an appropriately truculent pout and Dulcie Gray delivers tart and catty put⁓downs with relish. 1972G. Lyall Blame the Dead xiv. 100 He'd picked me up at the put-down place for Euston station... It's a one-way underground street. 1973N.Y. Times 18 Feb. 1. 24/1 He [sc. Trudeau] doesn't rise to bait—with choice epithets and that put-down Gallic shrug of his. 1974S. Alsop Stay of Execution ii. 160 He [sc. Dean Acheson] detested silliness, and he was justly famous for his put-downs—when he put down a fool, the fool was left in no doubt that he was a fool. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 20 Mar. 14/2 The woman whom former Attorney General John Mitchell immortalized with his famous putdown, ‘Katie Graham's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer’, is hardly the ‘bitch bringing down Presidents’. 1977Miller & Swift Words & Women vi. 100 Some speakers and writers use Ms. only as a put⁓down.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 205 Learning empouerished in purses, though replenished in *putfurthes by such interceptours.
1853‘Mark Twain’ in Hannibal (Missouri) Jrnl. 25 May 3/1 Never speak when it's not your ‘*put-in’. 1903W. N. Harben Abner Daniel xxxv. 301 This ain't no put⁓in o' mine, gracious knows. I hain't got nothin', an' I don't expect to lose or gain by what is done. 1962Times 11 Jan. 4/3 The Navy came out better in the matter of put-ins against the head. 1975Sunday Tel. 2 Mar. 30/1 He may have lost confidence as the game developed after being penalised four times for a crooked put-in.
1833J. Neal Down-Easters i. vi. 83, I shouldn't think twould be any *put-out to you to take somebody else. 1843A. S. Stephens High Life N.Y. ii. 32 Don't be uneasy about the trouble, it won't be no put out to Captain Doolittle. 1885California Athlete 19 Dec. 5/1 He assisted yesterday in fourteen put outs. 1891N. Crane Baseball vi. 44 An ‘assist’ is given to every player who handles the ball in assisting a put-out or other play of the kind. 1896Knowles & Morton Baseball 83 Every base that was run was ticked off..and every ‘put-out’ and every ‘assist’ was shown on the painted plan. 1904R. H. Barbour School & College Sports 200 Put-out, a play by which a batsman or a base-runner is retired. 1972Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 21/8 He..led the league's shortstops in fielding percentage, putouts, assists and double plays.
1958Punch 8 Jan. 84/1 He..gave me the acreage, cost, cubic capacity and passenger *put-through. 1959[see put through s.v. put v.1 52 d]. 1968Economist 4 May 64/1 Even in the leaders trading is often very narrow, and the resulting prices (on the basis of which an increasing amount of shunting and ‘put throughs’ now go on) are not struck on the total volume of trading. 1973Daily Tel. 7 June 21 Trading on the Paris Bourse traditionally has consisted either of very big ‘put⁓throughs’ or of small deals for private individuals.
1891Longm. Mag. Oct. 564 We must get a *put-up at Queen's Gate.
1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv, The presence of your husband's cheeses in her house she would..regard as a ‘*put upon’. |