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Platz¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Platz.

proper noun

  1. A surname from German. Lilly loves everything about John Platz! He feeds her, walks her, gives her treats, and she even takes an afternoon nap with him!

platz²

Where it comes from

From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).

verb platzes · platzing · platzed

  1. intransitive To become aggravated. There is a yiddish^([sic]) verb, to platz – roughly, it means to be on tenterhooks, just with all the emotional and physical incontinence that you’d expect from a language that deals principally in uncomfortable extremes. But platzing is not an Olympic sport.

platz³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Platz. Doublet of piatza, piazza, place, and plaza.

noun platzes

  1. A public square in Germany. We sit at a cafe in the crisp morning air, looking down the gradually descending town square towards the gothically vertiginous fifteenth-century St Egidius church. The platz is ringed by steeply gabled pastel burghers' houses and in the centre sits the medieval town hall.

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@misc{platz_2026,
  title = {platz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/platz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}