put on frillsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

put on frills (三人称単数 現在形 puts on frills, 現在分詞 putting on frills, 過去形および過去分詞形 put on frills)

1. (idiomatic, dated) To act in a pretentious or snobbish way.

   Synonyms: give oneself airs, put on airs, show off

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 5”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:

     […] he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.