Crossword clues for klutz
klutz
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1967, American English, from Yiddish klots "clumsy person, blockhead," literally "block, lump," from Middle High German klotz "lump, ball." Compare German klotz "boor, clod," literally "wooden block" (see clot).
Wiktionary
n. (cx US pejorative English) A clumsy or stupid person.
WordNet
n. (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt
Wikipedia
Klutz may refer to:
- Most commonly, a clumsy person
- Klutz Press, a publishing company
- Klütz (or "Kluetz") is a surname and a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
- Captain Klutz, comic strip superhero parody of Mad Magazine
Klütz is a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, 22 km northwest of Wismar, and 33 km northeast of Lübeck. It is famous for the manor house Bothmer Castle, located just outside the village. In the centre of the village lies the medieval Brick Gothic village church, dedicated to Our Lady. There is also a centre of literature named after writer Uwe Johnson in the town.
It is close to the cities of Lübeck, Wismar and Schwerin and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.
Usage examples of "klutz".
So, although he may yet be a bit of a bumbler, something of a bookish boob, a man given to a bit too much drinking, and still a klutz much top humanly prone to err, let us keep sight of the fact that he is learning something of the verities of Life-for he is, above all, a man of good intentions.
George Riot slipped into town and on the telephone muttered that she must meet him again at the dreary Hex Hotel, she refused, because she was going to a party to be given by the clever Miss Teddy Klutz, aetat 24, the youngest and liveliest teacher at their Qwick-Shure Secretarial and Executive Commercial College, Positions Guaranteed.
That way if either of you klutzes happens to trigger an alarm, it won't be any great loss.
So those klutzes in Knoxton will know that at least two Knox were on Earth at the end.
In fact, maybe we end up with three or four bombings a week instead of two, because we won't have as many opportunities to catch some of these people before their timers hit zero, and because this gadget will make competent bomb-builders out of the klutzes - whereas today, sometimes we catch a break because amateurs make mistakes.
There was Windows 98 for Beginners, Windows 98 for Dummies, Windows 98 for Klutzes, Windows 98 for the Computer Challenged, and then she'd come across the yellow book and picked it up and thought Is this what my life has come to?
These klutzes couldn't even kill an unhappy Jew, even though Hitler showed them how some years ago.
It could be, she considered as she watched Sibelle first spill soup on her bosom, then knock the salt cellar across the table, that she was called LeGauche because she came from a long line of klutzes.