See put it about on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "puts it about",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "putting it about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "put it about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put it about",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "put<,,put> it about"
},
"expansion": "put it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "put about"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "put oneself about"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
15
]
],
"text": "He put it about that she had been stealing company money.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To disseminate, for example through gossip."
],
"id": "en-put_it_about-en-verb-SHu9bqRI",
"links": [
[
"disseminate",
"disseminate"
],
[
"gossip",
"gossip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "26 74",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 73",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 71",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "32 68",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
148,
160
]
],
"ref": "2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:",
"text": "Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be sexually promiscuous."
],
"id": "en-put_it_about-en-verb-mCcy8FxF",
"links": [
[
"sexual",
"sexual"
],
[
"promiscuous",
"promiscuous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To be sexually promiscuous."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"word": "put it about"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs formed with \"about\"",
"English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "puts it about",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "putting it about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "put it about",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put it about",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "put<,,put> it about"
},
"expansion": "put it about (third-person singular simple present puts it about, present participle putting it about, simple past and past participle put it about)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "put about"
},
{
"word": "put oneself about"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English informal terms",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
3,
15
]
],
"text": "He put it about that she had been stealing company money.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To disseminate, for example through gossip."
],
"links": [
[
"disseminate",
"disseminate"
],
[
"gossip",
"gossip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) To disseminate, for example through gossip."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
148,
160
]
],
"ref": "2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:",
"text": "Didn't stop myself hissing that if Ayrs was ¹⁄₂ as good a husband as he was a manipulator and a larcenist of better men's ideas, his wife might not put it about so much.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To be sexually promiscuous."
],
"links": [
[
"sexual",
"sexual"
],
[
"promiscuous",
"promiscuous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) To be sexually promiscuous."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"word": "put it about"
}
Download raw JSONL data for put it about meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.