Definitions for put-on

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Spelling: [noun poo t-on, -awn; adjective Put-On is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in put-on (-noptu).

Definitions for put-on

noun

1. an act or instance of putting someone on.
2. a prank or pretense, especially one perpetrated or assumed in mock seriousness; hoax; spoof.
3. affected manner or behavior; pretentiousness.

adjective

1. assumed, feigned, pretended, or disguised:

Origin of put-on

1855-60; adj., noun use of verb phrase put (someone) on

Examples for put-on

This was evidently no put-on apology for the occasion, and Wyndham, as he spoke, looked as penitent as his words.

The first thing to know about King's personality is that it isn't a put-on for Fox News.

"She's only china, and her hair's a put-on wig," said Agatha, with tears in her eyes.

And since her niece had come to live with her, this put-on sternness had increased.

Her voice, in essence, sounds like a put-on version of a particularly technical rapper from the American South.