put on vs shower

put on

verb
  • To assume, adopt or affect; to behave in a particular way as a pretense. 

  • To don (clothing, equipment, or the like). 

  • To initiate cooking or warming, especially on a stovetop. 

  • To perform for an audience. 

  • To organize a performance for an audience. 

  • To fool, kid, deceive. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, on. 

  • To bet on. 

  • To play (a recording). 

shower

verb
  • To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance. 

  • To rain in a shower; to cascade down. 

  • To spray with (a specified liquid). 

  • To bathe using a shower. 

noun
  • A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). 

  • A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts. 

  • A baby shower. 

  • An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. 

  • Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier 

  • One who shows. 

  • A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower. 

  • An object or activity that is shown in a contest. 

  • A bridal shower. 

  • A shower of shit. 

  • A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself. 

  • A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. 

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