Example sentences for: putz

How can you use “putz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ("Putz" is a Yiddish insult that literally means "penis" but in common usage means "fool."

  • Yiddish is especially versatile in describing those poor souls who inhabit the world of the ineffectual, and each is assigned a distinct place in the gallery of pathetic types: schmo, schmendrik, schnook, schmegegge, schlep, schlub, schmuck, putz, klutz, kvetch , and nudnik . Yiddish easily coins new names for new personalities: a nudnik is a `pest'; a phudnik is a `nudnik with a Ph.D.' The rich nuances that suffuse this roll call are seen in the timeless distinction between a schlemiel `clumsy jerk' and a schlimazel `habitual loser': the schlemiel inevitably trips and spills his hot soup—all over the schlimazel.

  • He could have had the veep slot, Stupid putz.

  • 133)--"Not Putz":


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