name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
klutz
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Sound
Pronunciation
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klŭts
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/klʌts/
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Northern-England: /klʊts/
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rhymes with -ʌts
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CMU ARPABET: K L AH1 T S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A clumsy or stupid person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory
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noun
Meaning 3
(Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock
History
Etymology
From Yiddish קלאָץ (klots, literally “wooden beam”); cognate to German Klotz (“block, lump”). Doublet of clot and clod.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: pocatraça — a clumsy or stupid person
- Czech: nemehlo — a clumsy or stupid person
- Czech: poleno — a clumsy or stupid person
- Czech: ťulpas — a clumsy or stupid person
- Dutch: kluns — a clumsy or stupid person
- Dutch: klos — a clumsy or stupid person
- Finnish: tunari — a clumsy or stupid person
- French: maladroit — a clumsy or stupid person
- German: (ungehobelter) Klotz — a clumsy or stupid person
- German: Trampel — a clumsy or stupid person
- German: Tollpatsch — a clumsy or stupid person
- German: Trottel — a clumsy or stupid person
- Hungarian: balfék — a clumsy or stupid person
- Hungarian: balfácán — a clumsy or stupid person
- Icelandic: klossi — a clumsy or stupid person
- Māori: pahi mohoao — a clumsy or stupid person
- Norwegian Bokmål: kløne — a clumsy or stupid person
- Plautdietsch: Schlenkjafoot — a clumsy or stupid person
- Plautdietsch: Pultafoot — a clumsy or stupid person
- Polish: ciamajda — a clumsy or stupid person
- Polish: oferma — a clumsy or stupid person
- Polish: fajtłapa — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: недотёпа (nedotjópa) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: неуме́ха (neuméxa) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: простофи́ля (prostofílja) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: растя́па (rastjápa) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: растеря́ха (rasterjáxa) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Russian: у́валень (úvalenʹ) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Swedish: drulle — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: незгра́ба (nezhrába) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: те́лепень (télepenʹ) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: вайло́ (vajló) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: тюхті́й (tjuxtíj) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: маму́ла (mamúla) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: розтеле́па (roztelépa) — a clumsy or stupid person
- Ukrainian: бевзь (bevzʹ) — a clumsy or stupid person