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putter-on en · NOUN
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(obsolete) An instigator.
You are abused, and by some putter-on
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]:
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Someone who puts something on
I'm a server of food and a putter-on of pants
2022, Albert Glinsky, Switched on: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution:
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