What's the difference between putz and schmuck?

Putz


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mean carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels in the high CO exposure groups were 5.1% for Putz et al.
  • (2) Deputy director of financial institutions Rudolf Putz says in countries such as Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia, EBRD is one of the few international institutions still providing trade finance facilities.
  • (3) "Enough being a nice Jewish boy, publicly pleasing my parents while privately pulling my putz!"
  • (4) In contrast to Putz et al., no statistically significant effect of COHb in monitoring behavior was found.

Schmuck


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  • (1) said some schmuck called Tim Jonze (stupid surname btw) David Bowie – The Next Day An album that's thought-provoking, strange and filled with great songs - listening to The Next Day makes you hope it's not a one-off, that his return continues apace.
  • (2) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
  • (3) Among the latter are Judah Friedlander (Roisin Dubh, Fri), best known for his appearances as boorish Frank Rossitano in 30 Rock, and deadpan schmuck Todd Barry (Roisin Dubh, 25 Oct).
  • (4) Tomorrow, all over the country, "the schmucks" go to the polls.
  • (5) Mninawa Ntloko, the sports editor of Business Day newspaper, branded them "tiresome vultures", a "mob" and "mean-spirited schmucks" who'd "all gotten it into their thick craniums that SA would make a mess of the World Cup".
  • (6) Know your Gaelic: A brief guide Yes Sea No Ni hea Hello Dia Duit Goodbye Slán English Béarla Irish Gaeilge He's a total schmuck Is gamal ceart é!
  • (7) The “Obama is a schmuck” action was an example of how the troll factory is expanding beyond just comments and blogposts to create new kinds of pro-Kremlin content, according to Andrei Soshnikov, a journalist in St Petersburg who was among the first to report on the troll factory and has continued to investigate it.
  • (8) And I thought, if I can't survive being on stage with someone who can do that, then I'm some kind of schmuck.
  • (9) if only those schmucks who run the USA team had tried to get Vedad to play for the USA (his parents and sister live in St Louis) but now it's too late.
  • (10) "The poor schmuck who has to get in on his own has to walk on water," Daniel Saracino, the assistant provost for admissions, told Golden.
  • (11) The site recently covered an “Obama is a schmuck” rally held by the pro-Kremlin Politkach group of Alexei Mschov, whom the Guardian observed chatting outside Savushkina 55 before walking inside on a recent weekday morning.
  • (12) They are upset with the 11 guys for being schmucks.
  • (13) Photograph: Jordan Hoffman for the Guardian Members of the press and their families in the New York area were invited for a Star Wars Day of Play, which I interpreted to mean “don’t be a schmuck and line up in the middle of the night, let Hasbro slip you a gifting bag for attending our event”.

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