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putz around

putz around verb: to waste time.

Verb

putz around (third-person singular simple present putzes around, present participle putzing around, simple past and past participle putzed around)

  1. (intransitive, slang) To waste time.
    • Just shut up and get in the truck! You putz around worse than a ninety-year-old woman!2002, Edward Lee, chapter 8, in Monstrosity, Abingdon, Md.: Cemetery Dance Publications, →ISBN, section II, page 181
    • “She used to be in her garden all the time,” [Barbara] Szczecina said. “They were always together, putzing around outside.”2015 April 7, Kashmira Gander, “Michael Juskin: 100-year-old man ‘kills wife with axe in murder-suicide attack’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of putz around

third-person singular presentputzes around
present participleputzing around
past participleputzed around
pastputzed around

Questions about putz around

What does putz around mean?
Putz around means to waste time.
What part of speech is putz around?
Putz around is a verb.
What is the past tense of putz around?
The past tense of putz around is putzed around.

Words near putz around in the dictionary

  1. pututu
  2. pututus
  3. putwa
  4. Putyvl
  5. putz
  6. putz around
  7. putz head
  8. putz heads
  9. putz round
  10. putz-head
  11. putz-heads

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