putoff

P3U1T1O1F4F4

noun

An excuse made to delay or stall.

Scrabble 14
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounputoff (plural putoffs)

plural putoffs

  1. An excuse made to delay or stall.

    I think I would have asked farther, but Alan gave me the put-off. “I am rather wearied,” he said, “and I would like fine to get a sleep.”

    1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC

Origin

Deverbal from put off.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

offput
Cite this entry
APA

putoff. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/putoff

MLA

“putoff.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/putoff. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “putoff,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/putoff.

Source: putoff on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.