Noun: klutz
| Singular | klutz |
| Plural | klutzes |
Sample Sentences
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Well, that's all right, then, Brian. Sit down. Have a scone. Make yourself at home. You klutz! [1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Reg (John Cleese):]
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"Out of [one abortion doctor's] first six months of work, there are nine malpractice suits ... After it was apparent the guy was a klutz, they kept using him, and trying to cover for him, because they couldn't find another provider." [1990 June 3, Dr. Robert Crist, abortion doctor, quotee, St. Petersburg Times:]
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"Mel, back home we'd call you a klutz." / Melissa: "Use a lot of Yiddish back in Texas, do you?" [2003, Greg Rucka, Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra:]
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I bumped into the coffee table. "Sorry about that table. Don't worry, you should see me, Qanta. I am the klutz! I am always doing that!" She giggled at her clumsiness while I giggled at a Saudi using idiomatic Yiddish. [2008, Qanta A. Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom:]
Nouns inflected like klutz
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Yiddish קלאָץ (klots, literally “wooden beam”); cognate to German Klotz (“block, lump”). Doublet of clot and clod. See: German Nouns '
Klotz'.