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"3": "Putz"
},
"expansion": "Pennsylvania German Putz",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Putz",
"3": "",
"4": "ornament, decoration, finery"
},
"expansion": "German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "putzen",
"3": "",
"4": "to clean; decorate"
},
"expansion": "putzen (“to clean; decorate”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "putzes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "putzing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "putzed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "putzed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "putz (third-person singular simple present putzes, present participle putzing, simple past and past participle putzed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"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"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood."
],
"links": [
[
"view",
"view"
],
[
"neighborhood",
"neighborhood"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Pennsylvania German, intransitive) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood."
],
"tags": [
"German",
"Pennsylvania",
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pʊts/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊts"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Putz"
}
],
"word": "putz"
}
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