"put on frills" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts on frills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting on frills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on frills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on frills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> on frills",
        "head": "put on frills"
      },
      "expansion": "put on frills (third-person singular simple present puts on frills, present participle putting on frills, simple past and past participle put on frills)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, New York: George H. Doran, page 242",
          "text": "“She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.”\n“I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2001, act 1, page 31",
          "text": "[…] your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’t put on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a pretentious or snobbish way."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_on_frills-en-verb-eCV73n0b",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ],
        [
          "snobbish",
          "snobbish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To act in a pretentious or snobbish way."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "affectation"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "give oneself airs"
        },
        {
          "word": "put on airs"
        },
        {
          "word": "show off"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put on frills"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts on frills",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting on frills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on frills",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on frills",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> on frills",
        "head": "put on frills"
      },
      "expansion": "put on frills (third-person singular simple present puts on frills, present participle putting on frills, simple past and past participle put on frills)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "affectation"
    }
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1921, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands, New York: George H. Doran, page 242",
          "text": "“She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.”\n“I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night, New Haven: Yale University Press, published 2001, act 1, page 31",
          "text": "[…] your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’t put on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act in a pretentious or snobbish way."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ],
        [
          "snobbish",
          "snobbish"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To act in a pretentious or snobbish way."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "give oneself airs"
        },
        {
          "word": "put on airs"
        },
        {
          "word": "show off"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "put on frills"
}