"butze" meaning in Middle High German

See butze in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈbut͡sːə/ (note: before 13ᵗʰ CE)
Head templates: {{gmh-noun|m}} butze m Inflection templates: {{gmh-ndecl|m.weak}} Forms: weak [table-tags], ein [indefinite, nominative, singular], dër [definite, nominative, singular], butze [nominative, noun, singular], die [definite, nominative, plural], butzen [nominative, noun, plural], eines [genitive, indefinite, singular], dës [definite, genitive, singular], butzen [genitive, noun, singular], dër [definite, genitive, plural], butzen [genitive, noun, plural], eime [dative, indefinite, singular], dëm [dative, definite, singular], butzen [dative, noun, singular], dën [dative, definite, plural], butzen [dative, noun, plural], einen [accusative, indefinite, singular], dën [accusative, definite, singular], butzen [accusative, noun, singular], die [accusative, definite, plural], butzen [accusative, noun, plural]
  1. Poltergeist, house ghost, familiar spirit, bogeyman Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-butze-gmh-noun-YILOyCz2 Categories (other): Middle High German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle High German entries with incorrect language header: 65 18 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 61 18 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 7 8
  2. anything small, short, or truncated
    a small child
    Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-butze-gmh-noun-EQlGh77c
  3. anything small, short, or truncated
    a lump, a clump, a mass, a clod
    Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-butze-gmh-noun-PEHrUfqD
{
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    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "goblin",
      "word": "Butz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "sense": "bogeyman",
      "word": "Butzemann"
    }
  ],
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      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gmh-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ein",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dër",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butze",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "die",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eines",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dës",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dër",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dëm",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dën",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "einen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dën",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "die",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "butze m",
      "name": "gmh-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "name": "gmh-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle High German",
  "lang_code": "gmh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "65 18 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle High German entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 18 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 7 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              30,
              36
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              37,
              42
            ]
          ],
          "english": "They no longer look at me like I'm a ghost, as they used to do.",
          "ref": "1220, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich hân mîn lêhen:",
          "text": "Sî sëhent mich niht mêr an in butzen wîs als sî wîlent tâten.",
          "translation": "They no longer look at me like I'm a ghost, as they used to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Poltergeist, house ghost, familiar spirit, bogeyman"
      ],
      "id": "en-butze-gmh-noun-YILOyCz2",
      "links": [
        [
          "Poltergeist",
          "Poltergeist"
        ],
        [
          "bogeyman",
          "bogeyman"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "anything small, short, or truncated",
        "a small child"
      ],
      "id": "en-butze-gmh-noun-EQlGh77c",
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "truncated",
          "truncated"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "anything small, short, or truncated",
        "a lump, a clump, a mass, a clod"
      ],
      "id": "en-butze-gmh-noun-PEHrUfqD",
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "truncated",
          "truncated"
        ],
        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "clump",
          "clump"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "clod",
          "clod"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbut͡sːə/",
      "note": "before 13ᵗʰ CE"
    }
  ],
  "word": "butze"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Middle High German entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle High German lemmas",
    "Middle High German masculine nouns",
    "Middle High German nouns",
    "Middle High German terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Middle High German weak masculine nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "goblin",
      "word": "Butz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "raw_tags": [
        "reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes"
      ],
      "sense": "bogeyman",
      "word": "Butzemann"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gmh-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ein",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dër",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butze",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "die",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eines",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dës",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dër",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eime",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dëm",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dën",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "einen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dën",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "noun",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "die",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "butzen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "noun",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "butze m",
      "name": "gmh-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m.weak"
      },
      "name": "gmh-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle High German",
  "lang_code": "gmh",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle High German terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              30,
              36
            ]
          ],
          "bold_translation_offsets": [
            [
              37,
              42
            ]
          ],
          "english": "They no longer look at me like I'm a ghost, as they used to do.",
          "ref": "1220, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ich hân mîn lêhen:",
          "text": "Sî sëhent mich niht mêr an in butzen wîs als sî wîlent tâten.",
          "translation": "They no longer look at me like I'm a ghost, as they used to do.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Poltergeist, house ghost, familiar spirit, bogeyman"
      ],
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          "Poltergeist"
        ],
        [
          "bogeyman",
          "bogeyman"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "anything small, short, or truncated",
        "a small child"
      ],
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          "small",
          "small"
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        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "truncated",
          "truncated"
        ],
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "anything small, short, or truncated",
        "a lump, a clump, a mass, a clod"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "short",
          "short"
        ],
        [
          "truncated",
          "truncated"
        ],
        [
          "lump",
          "lump"
        ],
        [
          "clump",
          "clump"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "clod",
          "clod"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbut͡sːə/",
      "note": "before 13ᵗʰ CE"
    }
  ],
  "word": "butze"
}

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