"put on the dog" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> on the dog",
        "head": "put on the dog"
      },
      "expansion": "put on the dog (third-person singular simple present puts on the dog, present participle putting on the dog, simple past and past participle put on the dog)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 94",
          "text": "If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_on_the_dog-en-verb-UJyjLA1~",
      "links": [
        [
          "dress up",
          "dress up"
        ],
        [
          "show",
          "show"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "importance",
          "importance"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic, dated) To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "put on the ritz"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "put on airs"
        },
        {
          "word": "put on dog"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put on the dog.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/En-au-put_on_the_dog.ogg/En-au-put_on_the_dog.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-au-put_on_the_dog.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put on the dog"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put on the dog",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> on the dog",
        "head": "put on the dog"
      },
      "expansion": "put on the dog (third-person singular simple present puts on the dog, present participle putting on the dog, simple past and past participle put on the dog)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "put on the ritz"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 94",
          "text": "If she softened her natural vowels a fraction in keeping with her role as a Protestant lady, she did not put on dog or act in a snobbish manner.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dress up",
          "dress up"
        ],
        [
          "show",
          "show"
        ],
        [
          "wealth",
          "wealth"
        ],
        [
          "importance",
          "importance"
        ],
        [
          "pretentious",
          "pretentious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, idiomatic, dated) To dress up; to make a show of wealth and/or importance; to be pretentious."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "put on airs"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-au-put_on_the_dog.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "put on dog"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put on the dog"
}