Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A poor or amateurish chess player.
Wiktionary
- n. chess, slang A poor player; an amateur.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a poor chess player
Etymologies
- Origin uncertain; perhaps from German Patzer. (Wiktionary)
- Probably from German, bungler, from patzen, to bungle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Although, since I don't see many people respond to your rantings except maybe a few new individuals… most have already figured out you're nothing but a patzer.”
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“In fact, depending on the particular situation, Deep Blue is either smarter than any human being could ever be -- or maybe as clumsy as a weekend patzer playing for dollars at Washington Square Park.”
“Hey, it takes a patzer to appreciate someone who can actually play!”
“If you mean tyro, I thought the spelling was patzer, but then, my Mom and Dad pronounced their Yiddish with a distinctly Bostonian accent.”
“Shut up, patzer" I love this fascinating scene from”
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“Lolly on Jul 21, 2008 visually delightful, but … sheers away from all other batmen by taking itself seriously as a forum of debate on the ancient division between the existential view that the universe and human behavior both lack any moral substrate or are ultimately ruleless altogether, and the obvious counterargument that moral behavior is not only possible, but inevitable, and has absolute consequences … pretty heavy stuff for an action adventure movie … in this way, i think knight overreaches badly … i do not expect to extract any serious philosophical lessons from any nameable lecture or entertainment in the space of 2 and 1/2 hours … nolan has undertaken an impossible task for such a limited medium … in the end expedience comes up for the b man as the easy winner afer all this striving, and i regard that as the point of exhaustion for his thesis. patzer on Jul 22, 2008”
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“I think this is a big mistake, but hopefully the rooms will be LOTS cheaper for the patzer players who fork over their entry fees to pay for the prizes won by the big guns, and everyone will be happy - and, come to think of it - maybe some of those overweight dudes will walk off some of their bellies trekking to and from the South Point to the Strip, where all the action still, truly, is!”
“Edit willard and patzer are getting their asses kicked. even if the other anti-science people win, that’s a 6-4 pro-science majority on the board.”
“Shut up, patzer" I love this fascinating scene from Stanley Kubrick's second feature, "The”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘patzer’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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• How to make a worker cry (derogativ...
What?! And I'm supposed to pay for your lousy work, you... you...
dauber, pettifogger, tinker, quill-driver, rhymester, numbnuts, peer, cartophiling, notaphily, speleology, letterboxing, metrophile and 43 more...
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Whatever Works (2009)
Words from 2009 'Whatever Works' film.
fault, racket, unto, flaw, fallacious, notion, decent, embalm, filch, delusion, delusions of gran..., grandeur and 135 more...
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amberella's Words
facetious, behoove, akrasia, schadenfreude, halcyon, vapid, wanderlust, bluestocking, drazel, succinct, literati, geason and 116 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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konoka's Words
volatile, erudite, deux ex machina, 1337, etymology, ensnare, wanderlust, miscreant, archaic, erotic, purloin, vernacular and 56 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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useful and foreign
sprachgefühl, weltanschauung, étagère, madrugada, weltschmerz, wabi, sabi, ganbaru, zarf, tontine, alþingi, lagniappe and 12 more...
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Schoolyard Suicide
See Dick run; see Dick cower, see Dick flinch, see Dick yowl; see Dick slink, see Dick lick, see Dick swell; see Dick slur "nudding" to nosy quidnuncs.
pejorative, nomenclature, deign, comestible, epicene, tarry, sobriquet, comport, querulous, inveigle, rococo, sotto voce and 69 more...
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