putter-on

noun — 2 senses

putter-on

noun

1

Obsolete An instigator.

You are abused, and by some putter-onc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

2

Someone who puts something on

I'm a server of food and a putter-on of pants2022, Albert Glinsky, Switched on: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution:

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