Etymograph

English

putz

Putz comes from Yiddish פּאָץ ‘penis, fool’.

  1. Yiddishmodernפּאָץpots‘penis, fool’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997putz

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Yiddishmodernפּאָץpots‘penis, fool’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1997putz

Earliest quotation: 1997, David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: “And, (4), we’re not really even seeing “characters” at…”

Linked words

through Latin pubes

puberty, pubes, pubis, 4 more

Another origin of putz

  1. Pennsylvania GermanmodernPutz
  2. Englishtodayputz

Today it means

noun A fool, an idiot.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Yiddish פּאָץ / putz

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