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▪ I. put-on, ppl. a.
(pʊtɒn; stress var.)
[pa. pple. of to put on: see put v. 47.]
1. Placed upon the person, as clothing.
1894R. Broughton Beginner xii, The Russian net of her accurately put-on veil.
b. transf. of the person: Clothed, dressed (with qualifying adv., as well or ill). Sc. and north. dial.
1815Scott Guy M. l, I'm no just that weel put on. 1887Mabel Wetheral Two North-Country Maids xxiii, It changes lassies when they look so trim, and well put on. 1896Barrie Marg. Ogilvy ix. (1897) 167 The first thing I want to know about her is whether she was good-looking, and the second how she was put on.
2. fig. Assumed, affected, feigned, pretended.
1621Fletcher Wildgoose Chase iii. i, With such a reverend put-on Reservation Which could not miss. 1775F. Burney Early Diary 28 Feb., He assumed no manner of superiority; nor yet..affected a certain put-on equality. 1884Church Bacon iii. 58 The put on and worldly life.
▪ II. ˈput-on, n. Chiefly N. Amer.
[put-: cf. put v. 47 e.]
A deception, a ruse, a hoax.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang. 672/2 Put-on, a deception, subterfuge, excuse..from ca. 1860. 1949H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxiv. 316 He knew there was no put-on; that she was not talking just to make him feel better. 1967New Yorker 24 June 34/3 What was once an occasional surprise tactic—called ‘joshing’ around the turn of the century and ‘kidding’ since the twenties—has been refined into the very basis of a new mode of communication. In all its permutations, this phenomenon is known as the ‘put-on’. It occupies a fuzzy territory between simple leg⁓pulling and elaborate practical joke. 1968‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 140 Meyer thought the call was a put-on, nobody had a name like Carlyle Butterford. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 8/7 (Advt.), Wool carpet excellence is assured by the Woolmark label. Protecting you from a put-on. 1973Sat. Rev. Society (U.S.) May 76/3 A wild mishmash of put-on, fantasy, and cultivated lunacy. 1975New Yorker 17 Nov. 125/1 There is no hint of satire here—or, to be fair, of put-on. 1977Time 4 Apr. 44/2 Much of the tone of such writing is personal, confessional, full of macho bellicosity and show-biz put-on. |