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putz noun [ pʊts ]

• a stupid or worthless person.
• "I'm not some two-bit putz who doesn't know the difference between Ouzo and Dom Perignon"
• a man's penis.

putz verb

• engage in inconsequential or unproductive activity.
• "too much putzing around up there would ruin them"
Origin: 1960s: Yiddish, literally ‘penis’.


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