putz around (to)
1putz around — AND f utz around in. to waste time; to do something ineffectually. (Putz is probably putz sense 1.) □ Get busy and stop putzing around. □ I spent the whole day just futzing around …
2putz around — v. mess around; do little or nothing; waste time …
3putz — putz1 [pʌts] n AmE informal not polite [Date: 1900 2000; : Yiddish; Origin: potz penis, stupid person ] 1.) an offensive word for someone, especially a man, who is stupid, annoying, and unpleasant 2.) a ↑penis putz 2 putz2 [pʌts, puts] v …
4putz — obnoxious man, fool, 1964, from Yiddish, from Ger. putz, lit. finery, adornment, obviously used here in an ironic sense. Earlier in slang sense of penis (1934, in Tropic of Cancer ); a non ironic sense is in putz Nativity display around a… …
5putz — ☆ putz [puts ] n. [< Yiddish < Ger, finery, ornament] Slang 1. the penis 2. a person regarded as stupid, simple, foolish, etc. vi. Slang to waste time; putter ( around): Sometimes considered vulgar …
6putz — (puhts) [Yiddish, from German] In slang, a jerk; a fatuous or foolish person. Also, a penis; used as the most offensive of insults. Rosten adds a cautionary note: “Putz is not to be used lightly or when women or children are around.” The… …
7futz around — Go to putz around …
8goof off — [v] avoid work bum around, coast, diddle, dog it*, doodle, drag one’s feet*, featherbed, fiddle around, fluff off, fool around, hang around, hang out, horse around, lollygag, mess around, monkey around, putz around, screw off, shirk, slack, take… …
9French Defence — White usually tries to exploit his extra space on the kingside where he can sometimes create a mating attack. White tries to do this in the Alekhine Chatard attack, for example. Another example is the following line of the Classical French: 1.e4… …
10Operation Bodenplatte — Part of Battle of the Bulge, World War II Ove …
