unput

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.