putter-on

English

Noun

putter-on (plural putters-on)

1. (obsolete) An instigator.
   • c. 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]:

     You are abused, and by some putter-on

2. Someone who puts something on
   • 2022, Albert Glinsky, Switched on: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution:

     I'm a server of food and a putter-on of pants

References

• “putter-on”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.