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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

put it about en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip.
    • He put it about that she had been stealing company money.
  2. (slang) To be sexually promiscuous.
    • Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
put it about Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
put it about Tense=Past lexicographic
puts it about Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
putting it about Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

put about · put oneself about