putz, you

putz, you
   Used especially by American Jewish speakers as a term of contempt. ‘Putz’ is vulgar slang for ‘penis’, but ‘schmuck’ is more frequently used in that sense. ‘Putz’ would not be used in polite society, especially before women or children. ‘You stinking putz’ is addressed by the hero of Portnoy’s Complaint to himself. It is one of many similar terms which Philip Roth demonstrates in that novel. Another Jewish writer, Mordecai Richler, uses the term several times in St Urbain’s Horseman.

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