单词 | to put it about |
释义 | > as lemmasto put it about 6. transitive. British slang. to put it about: to be sexually promiscuous. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be promiscuous to play legerdeheel1605 to put it about1817 to do the (also a) naughty1902 to fool around1923 sleep1928 to play around1929 alleycat1937 to screw around1939 bed-hop1943 tom1950 horse1953 to whore it up1956 swing1964 1817 Ld. Byron Let. 20 Jan. (1976) V. 162 Is the brat mine?—I have reason to think so—for I know..that she had not lived with S[helley] during the time of our acquaintance—& that she had a good deal of that same with me.—This comes of ‘putting it about’. 1975 S. Brett Cast 48 The simplest explanation was that he had just got tired of Jacqui... He was a man who had always put it about a bit. 1989 Lit. Rev. Dec. 11/1 Helen is pretty, and she puts it about. 2001 I. Sinclair Landor's Tower (2002) i. iv. 46 His first (other-sex) relationship came at a time when women took care of contraception and felt obliged..to celebrate their newly acquired freedom by putting it about. < as lemmas |
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