stutzen

See also: stützen and Stützen

German

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Cognate with Dutch stuiten (“to check, rebound”).[1]

Pronunciation
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Verb

stutzen (weak, third-person singular present stutzt, past tense stutzte, past participle gestutzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. obsolete form of stoßen
  2. (archaic or lofty) to be a coxcomb, to floss, to ball (to be a Stutzer)
  3. to cut short, to trim
    einen Baum / den Bart stutzen ― to trim a tree / the beard
  4. to stop short

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), “stutzen”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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