futz
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Probably from German Fotze (“cunt”).
Noun[edit]
futz (plural futzes)
- (vulgar, colloquial, dialectal, derogatory) An objectionable woman.
- Janet gets on my nerves. She's a dumb futz, ain't she?
Etymology 2[edit]
From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish אַרומפֿאַרצן (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.
Verb[edit]
futz (third-person singular simple present futzes, present participle futzing, simple past and past participle futzed)
- (Northern US) 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.
- To experiment by trial and error.
Usage notes[edit]
- Used especially in the phrase futz around.
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