put horns on
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "City Comedies depicted the pursuit of wealth, status, and women in Jacobean London. In a typical plot, a ne'er-do-well young gentleman dupes his older relatives out of money, while lower-class rascals play cruder tricks on respectable citizens. For example, in Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters, Follywit, the Gallant, repeatedly robs his uncle by preying on the old man's hospitality and pride. Meanwhile the wife of a "citizen" (an urban dweller with the city's rights and privileges) and her would-be seducer arrange to put horns on her jealous husband, and a prostitute and her mother (who is also her pimp, a typical manifestation of the genre's cynical attitude toward kinship) contrive to catch Follywit to be the girl's husband. All schemes succeed."
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Inflected Forms
puts horns on (present, singular)
putting horns on (participle, present)
put the horns on (alternative)
put horns upon (alternative)