off-putting

Reader's Digest ３月号の記事 'The Healing Hoagie' に以前（1/21/2010）取り上げた "off-putting" が次の様に出てきました。
No one had been home when the hoagie arrived. It had been sitting in FedEx packaging on the stoop of a friend's house in Houston, where we were staying during my clinical trial for leukemia.
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The aroma went from off-putting to intoxicating. I had another bite, then another. Meanwhile, my temperature gradually declined.
意味は既に調べたので今回は語源を調べます。
・Online Etymology Dictionary: 1570s, "procrastinating," from off (adv.) + put (v.). Meaning "creating an unfavorable impression" is first recorded 1894.
私もどちらかと言うとせっかちな方なので "procrastinating" な態度に合うと、"off-putting" な気持ちになりますね。