Etymologies
- From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, "to split, crack, burst, explode"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“�Shvitz has other meanings in different contexts, but my editor said if I tried to explain them, he would plotz.”
“Many people were requested to 'plotz', explode, but only after they had gone to 'kakin afen yam', relieve themselves in the ocean.”
The Huffington Post: Marc Gopin: Beyond Jewish Blessings And Curses There Is Absolute Love
“Bantam Dell merges with Ballantine … my 14-year-old sci-fi reading self would plotz”
“The rest of us would like to get on with making this country whole again without having to constantly avoid you fetid piles of plotz.”
Think Progress » McCain complains that the United States has yet to ‘pull the trigger’ on Iran.
“If we feel angry, we yell or withdraw; when we feel hungry, we reach for food; when we feel lazy, we plotz in front of the TV or computer.”
“Judge Judy would plotz if she knew what I paid for my recumbent.”
This Just In: Leave of Absence Announcement! (and Friday Fun Quiz!)
“Yet, sighing past armies of "cardboard monsters" with annoying, pointlessly mechanized googly eyes, and what must be two yards of insipid T-shirts with hammer-over-the-head obvious references, one is reminded of children in art classes who all have the same assignment: if any one of these stands out, or shows a modicum of identifiable wit, I'll plotz.”
“So I really shouldn't plotz over what radical changes various TV shows have in store for the future timeline of the TV Universe.”
“Al Gore puts me to sleep and Prius drivers make me want to plotz.”
“Myra's word later for what the pink-handed little white guy had done when she identified herself as the big winner was plotz.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plotz’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
revising for a competition 30 games
in 24 hours
5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
J
X
ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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Cartoonish
wham, eek, bang, kaboom, boohoo, kerpow, wallop, argh, ouch, yipes, *sigh*, aiee and 7 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 214 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Yiddish words
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Jayni's Favorites
Too early to tell
schnook, pish, tetchy, megillah, nebbish, plotz, slattern, trollop
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Yiddish?
Words that I love, that I imagine spoken by a yiddish speaker.
feh, meh, weh, putz, meshuganah, plotz, Upgefucked, Oy
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from the Yiddish
schlep, kvetch, shiksha, dreck, goyim, tuccus, potch, boychik, putz, schmuck, chutzpah, golem and 19 more...
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Words
flabbergast, quagmire, upholstery, perspicacious, cinnamon, punctilious, callipygian, serendipity, plotz, shlep, defenestration, glockenspiel and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for plotz.

mortone Plotz: from Yiddish, meaning to drop like a stone and be really dead. That it sounds just like the English word "plots" (as in funeral plots, not as in story lines) is probably coincidental. Probably. Jul 8, 2009
mollusque For years I thought this meant "collapse". Then I found out it meant "burst". Now I see in OED2 that it can mean "To sit down wearily; to flop; to slouch; to loaf," so I was right to begin with. Nov 15, 2008
skipvia "Chicken salad so delicious, you could plotz." Oct 7, 2007