putz

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fool, an idiot. derogatory,slang
    — “The excitement of our friendship made me overlook my vampire powers.” “Hi.” “My foreskin grew back very fast. Now he thinks I'm meshuggener, which means he thinks I'm a little bit of a putz.”
  2. A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree. slang
    — The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.
  3. A jerk. derogatory,slang
    — And, (4), we’re not really even seeing “characters” at all: it’s not Major Frank Burns, pathetic self-important putz from Fort Wayne, Indiana; it’s Larry Linville of Ojai, California, actor stoic enough to endure thousands of letters (still coming in, even in syndication) from pseudo-voyeurs berating him for being a putz from Indiana.
  4. The penis. slang
动词 v.
  1. To waste time. intransitive,slang
    — Stop putzing around.
  2. To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. Pennsylvania,US,intransitive,slang
    — Once all good Moravians in Bethlehem went putzing between Christmas and Twelfth Night to take a look at their friends' cribs.

词形变化

putzes plural putzes present,singular,third-person putzing participle,present putzed participle,past putzed past putzes plural Putz alternative putzes present,singular,third-person putzing participle,present putzed participle,past putzed past Putz alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
putzhead putz-head putz head putzy

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”); compare similar semantic developments in futz.
词源 2
Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.
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