pune botul

a pune botul (third-person singular present pune botul, past participle pus botul) 3rd conj. (idiomatic, slang)

1. to take the bait, be fooled into belief, to buy it [+ la (object)]
   • 2019, ZENK (lyrics and music), “NU PUN BOTU [I'M NOT FOOLED]”‎:

     Nu mă lua cu arfe și vrăjeli că nu pun botu'

     Don't give me attitude and baloney, 'cause I'm not buying it

   • 2021 May 31, Răzvan Băltărețu, “Toate modurile în care îți poți lua țeapă pe internet ca român [All the ways you can get scammed on the internet as a Romanian]”, in Vice Romania‎, archived from the original on 2021/10/11:

     Țeapa asta n-a dispărut cu totul, pentru că pe măsură ce oameni noi intră pe internet cineva tot va pune botul la poveste și se va trezi cu contul golit.

     This scam hasn't completely disappeared, because, as more people join the internet, someone will still buy the story and wake up to an empty bank account.

2. (vulgar, rare) to perform cunnilingus or anilingus
   • 2005 December 10, ronin, “groparu' si boierii ! [The digger and the boyars!]”, in soc.culture.romanian‎ (Usenet):

     Spre deosebire de multi dintre boieri dvs., care pana la o limita ati pus botul la gaozul regimului, am fost mai putin labil la compromis; deh, "origine nesanatoasa", ca atare am plecat din Romania cu meserie de "gropar".

     Unlike many of you boyars, who were licking the regime's bunghole up to a point, I was less susceptible to compromise; 'unhealthy origin', duh; therefore I emigrated from Romania as a 'digger'.

3. Synonym of face bot (“to pout”)
4. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) to overtake in traffic

• botanist

• bot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)