I'm going to be putzing around Penn Station for about an hour tomorrow morning if you're bored and want to keep me company.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
You'll be doing WHAT in Penn Station?!!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Er.. putzing? I have an hour/hour and a half to kill in between train rides.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Haha, I've heard that phrase used for doing stuff aimlessly when you have nothing else to do.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Yes. That would be derived from the first definition at Esther's link -- "fool."
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
You may be thinking of futzing.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Yea, but I've always heard it putzing.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Katie, he is correct about the usage. It's just considered somewhat off-color, which might not have been his intent.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
*confused* He?
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
He?
I thought we were all ladies here, or I would have NEVER posted that off-color link!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oops.
And I knew that kojabu was a she, too.
*sends self to time-out*
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Rivka rivka, and we even have the same name!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Rivka, your name is kojabu?
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Um . . . apparently?
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Nono, my name is Rivka, but not in that language.
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :