putzen
Meaning
- (intransitive, transitive, weak) to clean, especially by rubbing with something wet, to brush (one's teeth)
- (reflexive, weak) to groom oneself
- (dated, reflexive, weak) to beautify oneself by washing, styling, and putting on fancy clothes
Concepts
Synonyms
Translations
limpiar
nettoyer
pulire
poetsen
limpar
temizlemek
βουρτσίζωFrequency
Dialects
Zürich
putze
Aargau
putze
Bern
putze
St. Gallen
putze
Bern
putzä
Zürich
putzä
Solothurn
putze
Lucerne
potze
Basel-Landschaft
putze
Zug
putze
St. Gallen
butze
Basel-Landschaft
butze
Basel-Stadt
putze
Graubünden
putza
Zug
butze
Obwalden
putzä
Lucerne
botze
Fribourg
putze
St. Gallen
potza
St. Gallen
pütza
Schaffhausen
putzä
Schwyz
putze
Basel-Stadt
putzä
Solothurn
butze
Solothurn
potze
Thurgau
butzä
Thurgau
putze
Valais
putzu
Basel-Stadt
butze
Zürich
ufrume
Appenzell Innerrhoden
botze
Aargau
butzä
Zürich
butze
Obwalden
butzä
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈpʰʊtsən]
Etymology
In summary
15th century, also in the form butzen. Origin unknown. Perhaps derived from Middle High German butze (“lump, piece, stump”), from Old High German *butz, from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (whence also English butt), with the interpretation of the verb being "to (remove) lumps and stumps", but there are several other theories. Perhaps related to Latin puto in the sense of "clean".
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