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put on dog

put on dog is the alternative form of put on the dog.

Meaning of put on the dog

Verb

put on the dog (third-person singular simple present puts on the dog, present participle putting on the dog, simple past and past participle put on the dog)

  1. (colloquial, dated, idiomatic) To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious.
    • If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 94
    Synonyms:
    put on airs

Forms of put on dog

third-person singular presentputs on dog
present participleputting on dog
past participleput on dog
pastput on dog

Questions about put on dog

What is put on dog the alternative form of?
Put on dog is the alternative form of put on the dog.

Words near put on dog in the dictionary

  1. put on a brave face
  2. put on a bus
  3. put on a clinic
  4. put on a pedestal
  5. put on airs
  6. put on dog
  7. put on frills
  8. put on one's dancing shoes
  9. put on one's own oxygen mask first
  10. put on one's oxygen mask first
  11. put on one's pants one leg at a time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put on dog (page history and authors); put on the dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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