putter-on
English
Noun
putter-on (plural putters-on)
- (obsolete) An instigator.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- You are abused, and by some putter-on
- Someone who puts something on
- 2022, Albert Glinsky, Switched on: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution:
- I'm a server of food and a putter-on of pants
References
- “putter-on”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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