Definitions for putz

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Spelling: [puhts]
IPA: /pʌts/

Putz is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in putz (ptuz).

Definitions for putz

noun

  1. fool; jerk.
  2. Vulgar. penis.

Origin of putz

1900-05; Yiddish puts literally, ornament, finery, probably noun derivative of putsn to clean, shine; compare early modern German butzen to decorate (German putzen to clean, brighten)

Examples for putz

I let out a yell and dashed for the rocket; putz opened the door and in I went, laughing and crying and shouting!

Most Moravians have a putz in their houses at Christmas time.

By contrast, Anglophones have been using words like schmuck, putz, mamzer, and gonif for only a century or so.

He stared at putz, who had come in silently, his face and hands blackened with carbon, and seated himself beside Harrison.

Before I finish wearing you out with these descriptions of my friends I must tell you all about the "putz."

But let me tell you about the putz that belonged to my friend of the club catacomb.

He looked comically bewildered and then a fellow explained that a putz was a decoration of German origin.

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.

Word Value for putz
Scrable

0

Words with friends

17

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