See put horns on in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "наста́вить рога́"
},
"expansion": "Russian наста́вить рога́ (nastávitʹ rogá)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "poner los cuernos"
},
"expansion": "Spanish poner los cuernos",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Russian наста́вить рога́ (nastávitʹ rogá), Spanish poner los cuernos.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "puts horns on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "putting horns on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put the horns on",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns upon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,put>",
"head": "~horns:"
},
"expansion": "put horns on (third-person singular simple present puts horns on, present participle putting horns on, simple past and past participle put horns on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Marriage",
"orig": "en:Marriage",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
529,
541
]
],
"ref": "1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so."
],
"id": "en-put_horns_on-en-verb-ddQcbaKb",
"links": [
[
"cuckold",
"cuckold"
],
[
"unfaithful",
"unfaithful"
],
[
"partner",
"partner"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"with-elative"
],
"word": "tehdä aisankannattaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"with-allative"
],
"word": "olla uskoton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "cocufier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "poñer os cornos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "Hörner aufsetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "die Hörner aufsetzen"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "rkebis dadgma",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "რქების დადგმა"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "keratóno",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "κερατώνω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "foráo kérata",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "φοράω κέρατα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "vázo kérata",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "βάζω κέρατα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "cornificare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "mettere le corna"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przyprawiać rogi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przyprawić rogi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nastávitʹ rogá",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "наста́вить рога́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "poner los cuernos"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "boynuzlamak"
}
]
}
],
"word": "put horns on"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "наста́вить рога́"
},
"expansion": "Russian наста́вить рога́ (nastávitʹ rogá)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "poner los cuernos"
},
"expansion": "Spanish poner los cuernos",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compare Russian наста́вить рога́ (nastávitʹ rogá), Spanish poner los cuernos.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "puts horns on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "putting horns on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "put the horns on",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "put horns upon",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "<,,put>",
"head": "~horns:"
},
"expansion": "put horns on (third-person singular simple present puts horns on, present participle putting horns on, simple past and past participle put horns on)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"en:Marriage"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
529,
541
]
],
"ref": "1983, Wendy Griswold, “The Devil's Techniques: Cultural Legitimation and Social Change”, in American Sociological Review, volume 48, number 5, page 672 of 668–680:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so."
],
"links": [
[
"cuckold",
"cuckold"
],
[
"unfaithful",
"unfaithful"
],
[
"partner",
"partner"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cuckold, to be unfaithful to or make someone’s partner so."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"with-elative"
],
"word": "tehdä aisankannattaja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"with-allative"
],
"word": "olla uskoton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "cocufier"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "poñer os cornos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "Hörner aufsetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "die Hörner aufsetzen"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "rkebis dadgma",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "რქების დადგმა"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "keratóno",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "κερατώνω"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "foráo kérata",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "φοράω κέρατα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"lang_code": "el",
"roman": "vázo kérata",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "βάζω κέρατα"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "cornificare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "mettere le corna"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "przyprawiać rogi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przyprawić rogi"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nastávitʹ rogá",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "наста́вить рога́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "poner los cuernos"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "To cuckold",
"word": "boynuzlamak"
}
],
"word": "put horns on"
}
Download raw JSONL data for put horns on meaning in English (5.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (03da280 and 7f4db16). 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.