different between lutz vs putz

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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (pots, “penis, fool”). Compare similar semantic developments in futz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

putz (plural putzes)

1. (slang, derogatory) Fool, idiot.
2. (slang, derogatory) Jerk.

   Synonym: schmuck
3. (slang) Penis.

   Synonym: schmuck

Derived terms

• putzhead, putz-head, putz head

Verb

putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)

1. (slang) Waste time.

   Synonym: futz

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.

Alternative forms

• Putz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ts/
• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

putz (plural putzes)

1. A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.
   • 1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:

     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.

Verb

putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)

1. (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.

Portuguese

Etymology

Probably a euphemistic form of puta.

Alternative forms

• puts

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?puts/, [?put?s]

Interjection

putz

1. (slang) Used to emphasize something that has gone wrong.

   Synonym: putz grila