/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Put
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A clown, a silly shallow-pate, a butt, one easily “put upon.”
“Queer country puts extol Queen Bess’s reign.”
Bramson.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.