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putz
[ puhts ]
putz
/ pʌts /
noun
- slang.a despicable or stupid person
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Word History and Origins
Origin of putz1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of putz1
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Example Sentences
That made Selden and Putz curious about where the critters got all this energy.
All of this led Selden and Putz to conclude that the gophers had provided conditions that favored root growth in their tunnels.
She and Putz say that this amounts to a rudimentary form of farming.
Upon examining some tunnels, Selden and Putz saw gopher feces spread through the interior along with signs of little bites taken out of roots and churning of the soil.
By contrast, Anglophones have been using words like schmuck, putz, mamzer, and gonif for only a century or so.
All I could see then was a bunch of black ropy arms tangled around what looked like, as Putz described it to you, an ostrich.
I let out a yell and dashed for the rocket; Putz opened the door and in I went, laughing and crying and shouting!
He stared at Putz, who had come in silently, his face and hands blackened with carbon, and seated himself beside Harrison.
But this is his Majesty's day for being polished; and just now his august presence is thickly smeared with putz-pomade.
Before I finish wearing you out with these descriptions of my friends I must tell you all about the "Putz."
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