unput

English

Etymology

un- +‎ put

Adjective

unput (not comparable)

1. undone or apart; in a state of disarray
   • 1932, Dikken Zwilgmeyer, The Little Northerners, page 196:

     I really don't know how it is that my clothes always manage to come unput. Other girls look as smart and neat as a new pin all the time; my dresses and overalls get on one side immediately; all my buttons come undone […]

   • 1947, Light Metals and Metal Industry, volume 10, page 263:

     Nevertheless, here it all was, cast, pressed and spun, with plastic handles, wooden handles or metal handles, warranted by optimistic manufacturers never to get too hot, and never to come unput.

   • 2001, Philip Gross, Changes of Address: Poems 1980-1998, page 65:

     I saw the solid world come unput at our feet. I didn't see the logic: how you would leave behind friends, family, a fixed address, even your books, until one tactful line in the Hatched-Matched-and-Despatched: Died Suddenly.

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