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}
],
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"form": "putzes",
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"plural"
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"ref": "1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13",
"text": "The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree."
],
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"decoration",
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],
[
"ornament",
"ornament"
],
[
"Nativity",
"Nativity"
],
[
"Christmas tree",
"Christmas tree"
]
]
}
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"ipa": "/pʊts/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊts"
}
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"word": "Putz"
}
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}
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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
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"English terms derived from Pennsylvania German",
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"English verbs",
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"en:Genitalia"
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"name": "bor"
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Putz",
"3": "",
"4": "ornament, decoration, finery"
},
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"name": "cog"
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{
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"2": "putzen",
"3": "",
"4": "to clean; decorate"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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{
"form": "putzes",
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
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"participle",
"present"
]
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{
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"past"
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{
"ref": "1947, Holiday - Volume 2, Issues 1-6, page 86",
"text": "Once all good Moravians in Bethlehem went putzing between Christmas and Twelfth Night to take a look at their friends' cribs.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1978, Mildred Jordan, The Distelfink Country of the Pennsylvania Dutch, page 141",
"text": "Everyone in the Moravian settlements goes putzing, visiting others' works of art.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Richmond E. Myers, Christmas traditions: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, page 43",
"text": "One Christmas custom that was very much the rage in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, was the putzing party. In the days when there were many putzes built in Bethlehem private homes, it was the practice to organize groups to wander around and visit the families who had erected these wonderful Christmas displays.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood."
],
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[
"view",
"view"
],
[
"neighborhood",
"neighborhood"
]
],
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"(Pennsylvania German, intransitive) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood."
],
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"German",
"Pennsylvania",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/pʊts/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊts"
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{
"word": "Putz"
}
],
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}
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},
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"name": "m"
}
],
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"1": "pt",
"2": "interjection"
},
"expansion": "putz",
"name": "head"
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"pos": "intj",
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"Portuguese 2-syllable words",
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
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"Portuguese lemmas",
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"english": "Damn, my car broke down.",
"text": "Putz, meu carro quebrou.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"used to emphasize something that has gone wrong"
],
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"(slang) used to emphasize something that has gone wrong"
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{
"word": "putz grila"
}
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"slang"
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"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
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"ipa": "/ˈpu.t͡ʃis/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈputs/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpu.t͡ʃis/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈput͡ʃ/",
"tags": [
"Rio-de-Janeiro"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpu.t͡ʃiʃ/",
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"Rio-de-Janeiro"
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],
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{
"word": "puts"
}
],
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