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Old December 21st 03, 03:24 AM
Jud McCranie
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Default etymology of patzer

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:14:49 -0000, "DDEckerslyke"
wrote:

far from the case, Mieses replied, "Patzer yourself. It's mate next move."


Interesting, but my paper dictionary and
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=patzer&r=67
say that it is probably from the German word patzen, meaning "to
bungle".



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