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put-down

noun
/ˈpʊtˌdaʊn/

Etymology

Deverbal from put down.

Definitions

  1. An insult or barb

    An insult or barb; a snide or demeaning remark.

    • When he called you a know-it-all, he meant it as a put-down.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for put-down. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA