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puts on frills

puts on frills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put on frills.

Meaning of put on frills

Verb

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

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To act in a pretentious or snobbish way.
    • […] he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 5”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Questions about puts on frills

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Puts on frills is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put on frills.

Words near puts on frills in the dictionary

  1. puts on
  2. puts on a brave face
  3. puts on a clinic
  4. puts on a pedestal
  5. puts on airs
  6. puts on frills
  7. puts on one's dancing shoes
  8. puts on one's own oxygen mask first
  9. puts on one's oxygen mask first
  10. puts on the dog
  11. puts on the kibosh

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