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putz 
[puhts] Pronunciation Key
[puhts] Pronunciation Key [Origin: 1900–05; < Yiddish puts lit., ornament, finery, prob. n. deriv. of putsn to clean, shine; cf. early mod. G butzen to decorate (G putzen to clean, brighten)]
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| putz
(pŭts) Pronunciation Key
n.
intr.v. putzed, putz·ing, putz·es Slang To behave in an idle manner; putter. [Yiddish pots, penis, fool.] |
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putz
"obnoxious man, fool," 1964, from Yiddish, from Ger. putz, lit. "finery, adornment," obviously used here in an ironic sense. Earlier in slang sense of "penis" (1934, in "Tropic of Cancer"); a non-ironic sense is in putz "Nativity display around a Christmas tree" (1902), from Pennsylvania Dutch.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| putz | |
noun | |
| 1. | (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot |
| 2. | obscene terms for penis [syn: cock] |
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