Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive, slang)To waste time.

    Stop putzing around.

  2. (Pennsylvania, US, intransitive, slang)To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. Quit being a putz, Tom.

    Том, не клей дурня. — oromashka · CC BY 2.0 FR

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  2. Did you come all the way out here just to putz around or what?

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  3. Americans are putzes.

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Origin

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”); compare similar semantic developments i

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”); compare similar semantic developments in futz.

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.

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Forms

putzes, putzing, putzed, putzed
Base formputz · to putz
3rd person singularputzes
Present participleputzing
Past simpleputzed
Past participleputzed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyputz
he, she, itputzes

Past simpleLesson

all personsputzed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave putzed
he, she, ithas putzed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill putz

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
futzputteryutz

Word family

2 related words
Derivedputz aroundputz round

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
putterputtypuzzleB1puzzlementpwn
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