[f. FORTH adv. + PUTTING, pr. pple. of PUT v.] That puts forth; esp. that puts oneself forward; forward, obtrusive, presumptuous. (Now chiefly U.S.)
c. 1570. Pride & Lowl. (1841), 33.
| Then was there yet another whom I see, | |
| Which stoode one of the hindmost of the route, | |
| For soft, and no whit forthputting was he. |
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. xviii. 21. Peter is still the same, ever too forwardly and forth-putting.
1854. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1879), II. 312. I should wrong her if I left the impression of her being forth-putting and obtrusive.
1883. Howells, Register, i. Do you think it was forth-putting at all, to ask him if he would give me the lessons?
