Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Put

A clown, a silly shallow-pate, a butt, one easily “put upon.”

“Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.”

Bramson.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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