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单词 put-on
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put-onn.

Brit. /ˈpʊtɒn/, U.S. /ˈpʊdˌɔn/, /ˈpʊdˌɑn/
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by compounding. Or (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: put v., on adv.; put-on adj.
Etymology: Either < put v. + on adv., after to put on at put v. Phrasal verbs 1, or directly < put-on adj.
colloquial (chiefly North American).
An affectation, a pretence; a deception; a hoax; a spoof, a prank. Also as a mass noun: pretence, deception.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
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brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
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cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
1919 B. Ruck Land Girl's Love Story xxi. 197 I realized now that it was all a ‘put-on’—his quietness, his nervousness, his seeming shyness.
1949 H. Hornsby Lonesome Valley xxiv. 316 He knew there was no put-on; that she was not talking just to make him feel better.
1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 140 Meyer thought the call was a put-on, nobody had a name like Carlyle Butterford.
1975 New Yorker 17 Nov. 125/1 There is no hint of satire here—or, to be fair, of put-on.
1989 Premiere Dec. 126/3 Tandy, like the boy in the ice-cream parlor, has observed Freeman's shifty deadpan and his penchant for put-ons.
1992 New Musical Express (BNC) 12 Sept. 34 There's nothing new about UKJ. Their punkish stance is probably a put-on: doubtless their dads are commodities brokers.
2003 E. Swift Where they Lay ii. 81 I head to Mama's with Pat Reynolds, who marches across Main Street with such carefully measured steps and arm swings that at first I take it for a put-on.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

put-onadj.

Brit. /ˈpʊtɒn/, /pʊtˈɒn/, U.S. /ˈpʊdˌɔn/, /ˈpʊdˌɑn/, /ˌpʊdˈɔn/, /ˌpʊdˈɑn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English put , put v., on adv.
Etymology: < put, past participle of put v. + on adv., after to put on at put v. Phrasal verbs 1.
1. Of manner, expression, etc.: adopted, assumed; affected, feigned. Of behaviour, actions, etc.: staged, artificial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
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counterfeit1393
pretense1395
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feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
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simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) iii. i. 25 With such a reverent put-on Reservation Which could not misse.
1775 F. Burney Jrnl. 28 Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 71 He assumed no manner of superiority, nor yet..affected a certain put on equality.
1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes II. 8 ‘Will you accept a violet, sir?’ said Proserpine, O, how meekly! and curtesying with well-put-on solemnity.
1855 F. Douglass My Bondage & My Freedom (1984) iv. 77 Are you a child with wants, tastes and pursuits common to children, not put on, but natural?
1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 58 The put on and worldly life.
1978 R. Rendell Sleeping Life iii. 23 I'd know that deep voice of hers anywhere and that put-on accent.
1989 J. Galloway Trick is to keep Breathing (1991) 35 It felt put-on, something out of a bad TV film.
2001 K. Sampson Outlaws (2002) 244 Delirious, put-on cackling. Some of them might be drunk or glued-up or whatever, but them cackling noises are pure phoney.
2.
a. Scottish and English regional (northern). Of a person: clothed or dressed. Usually with prefixed adverb, as ill-put-on, well-put-on, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective]
boundc1175
clothedc1220
bitighta1250
i-boenc1275
yclothed1297
ydight1297
clada1300
bitoughtc1314
ycladc1330
attireda1375
yhabited1377
gleda1450
buskedc1450
vested (also vest) and seized1464
besee?a1513
yschrowd1513
vestured1523
arrayed1525
braldc1571
garbed1599
habilimented1607
riggeda1640
dressed1641
put-ona1784
habited1807
swathed1815
draped1833
turned-out1833
caparisoned1841
enclad1863
a1784 A. Ross Sc. Wks. (1938) 29 'Tis true her head had been made up fu' sleek The tither day, an' well put on her keek.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. xi. 210 I'm no just that weel put on.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxviii. 396 A sleek-headed, well-put-on, groomish-looking man.
1895 ‘S. Tytler’ Kincaid's Widow iv His hand offered in marriage and rejected by that ugly, ill-put-on halflin' of a cousin!
1904 ‘H. Foulis’ Erchie x. 64 ‘They're awfu' bien-lookin' and weel put on,’ says he. ‘Oh ay!’ they tells him, ‘that's their Sunday claes.’
1962 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Compl. Poems (1994) II. 1066 A' I ken is weel-fed and weel-put-on though they be Ninety per cent o' respectable folk never hae As muckle life in their creeshy carcases frae beginnin' to end As kythed in that wild auld carline that day!
1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's ii. 13 Well-put-on wee lads in decent sturdy wool with polished boots and braw-knit stockings.
b. Of clothing, make-up, etc.: placed on a person, applied (usually with prefixed adverb).
ΚΠ
1883 Sioux Valley (Correctionville, Iowa) News 22 Feb. If the toilet is carefully made, the dress tidy, well-fitting and neatly put on, and the color or frill spotless, the effect can scarcely fail to be attractive.
1894 R. Broughton Beginner xii The Russian net of her accurately put-on veil.
1950 F. M. Ford Parade's End 568 Two Tommies, blond and blushing East Kents, remarkably polished about the buttons and brass numerals, with beautifully neatly-put-on puttees.
1950 A. Wilson Story of Hist. Interest in Wrong Set & Other Stories 92 She had seen such little creatures with their black hair, badly put on lipstick and insolent eyes, hanging on the arms of soldiers in the Edgware Road.
1990 Guardian (Nexis) 4 May The diarists..seemed mostly concerned with minor embarrassments: on Barbara Castle's part, the 'appalling moment' when her hastily put on wig fell off in public.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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