different between futz vs lutz

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

Etymology

From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ts/

Noun

lutz (plural lutzes)

1. (figure skating) A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.

Translations

French

Etymology

From the surname of Australian skater Alois Lutz who invented the jump.

Pronunciation

Noun

lutz m (plural lutz)

1. lutz (jump)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin l?cem, accusative singular of l?x.

Noun

lutz f (plural luses)

1. light

See also

• lum