put about
adj1
Dated disturbed; upset
- I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124:
put about
verb- It had been incurred by a little fellow, young, a novice, an afterguardsman absent from his assigned post when the ship was being put about.1886, Herman Melville, Billy Budd:
2
To circulate, spread or disseminate.
- to put about a rumour
- We are out to make big money this time and Bronsky will be useful. He can give us facilities for getting the stuff away and for putting it about on a scale that no one else could offer.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- Related terms
- put it about, put oneself about