Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bruise; break.
  • noun Dust; rubbish.

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  • noun the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life

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  • See also putz and schmuck

    December 29, 2006

  • An old provincial term for dust, from Exmoor.

    May 3, 2011

  • And here I thought it was an especially sibilant circumcision.

    May 3, 2011