put-onnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpʊt.ɒn/us/ˈpʊt.ɑːn/US informalan attempt to deceive someone into believing something that is not true:
She's not really angry - it's just a put-on.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- quack
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