Yiddish Word of the Week
Futz (verb): to mess around, to screw around. Commonly used when someone asked what I did on a Sunday morning. As in, "Not much. I futzed around on the computer, then cleaned the apartment."
posted by Erin @ 10:56 AM
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Sunday, January 15, 2006Yiddish Word of the WeekFutz (verb): to mess around, to screw around. Commonly used when someone asked what I did on a Sunday morning. As in, "Not much. I futzed around on the computer, then cleaned the apartment."
posted by Erin @ 10:56 AM
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3 Comments:
That's funny! I've used this word for years and had no idea it was Jewish! Learn something new every day!
Shannon
A cute word, and a funny one, but alas, not really Yiddish. It might be inspired by Yiddish, though, in that it sounds sort of Yiddishy. There are a couple other words like that, like "shmo." But this word clearly came into the word as a dodge for a certain English word that begins similarly...
I went and looked up the word, as there seems to be some disagreement as to whether it is Yiddish or not, and found this at http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com
futz, to fiddle around, to putter around (American Jewish, possibly derivated from Yiddish 'arumfartsen') פֿוץ
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