单词 | put-on |
释义 | put-onn. 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 braida1000 fraudc1374 mock1523 brogue1537 flim-flamc1538 imposture1548 lie1560 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. 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] fainta1340 counterfeit1393 pretense1395 feinta1400 feigned1413 disguisyc1430 colourable1433 pretending1434 simulate1435 dissimuled1475 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). < n.1919adj.a1625 |
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