different between futz vs fute

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?ts/

Etymology 1

Probably from German Fotze (“cunt”).

Noun

futz (plural futzes)

1. (vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman

   Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?

Etymology 2

From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- +? furzen), perhaps via Yiddish ????????????? (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.

Verb

futz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)

1. To be frivolous and waste time [from the 20th c.]
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

     I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.

2. To experiment by trial and error

Synonyms

• putz

Usage notes

• Used especially in the phrase futz around.

See also

• (experiment): frob, fooster

English

Verb

fute (third-person singular simple present futes, present participle futing, simple past and past participle futed)

1. (obsolete) To whistle.

Anagrams

• EF-Tu, fuet

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin futuere, present active infinitive of futu?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to hit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fute]

Verb

a fute (third-person singular present fute, past participle futut) 3rd conj.

1. (vulgar) to fuck

   Nu vreau s? te fut. M? fut numai cu muieri.

   I don't wanna fuck you. I only fuck women.

2. (vulgar) to annoy, bug, bother
3. (vulgar) to put oneself into, to undergo

   Merg acas? s? fut un du?.

   I'm going home to take a shower.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• futere

Volapük

Noun

fute

1. dative singular of fut