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oobatz

French translation: imbécile

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English term or phrase:oobatz
French translation:imbécile
Entered by: Lia Fail (X)

10:48 Jan 2, 2001
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: oobatz
This oobatz bought himself a horse!
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Ana.uk
Local time: 03:03
crazy one, headcase, fool etc
Explanation:
If you look in Google under OOBATZ - nothing. Under OBATZ, you get a kind of cheese dip thing (in fact, obatz'n).

Trying UBATZ (same pronunciation), I got this:

EXTRACT:
UBATZ stands for crazy one in Italian.
FROM:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.vanity-plates.com/w...

I seem to remember that your previous submission had something Italian about it, right?
Selected response from:

Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 04:03
Grading comment
Thank you to all of you! Yes my previous submission was in italian! There's all sorts in here!! I figured it would mean something like that, but wasn't 100%. Did try google, but not phonetically. (still new to this).

Cheers!
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Summary of answers provided
naIdoit (I think)
Maryse Benhoff (X)
nacrazy one, headcase, fool etc
Lia Fail (X)
naidiot , imbécile, fou/folle (in French)
Lia Fail (X)


  

Answers


4 hrs
Idoit (I think)


Explanation:
The only thing this even remotely sounds like is the Yiddish word "Putz" which is American slang for "a stupid person".

Hope this helps


    Cambridge International Dictionary of English
Maryse Benhoff (X)
Local time: 22:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 4
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7 hrs
crazy one, headcase, fool etc


Explanation:
If you look in Google under OOBATZ - nothing. Under OBATZ, you get a kind of cheese dip thing (in fact, obatz'n).

Trying UBATZ (same pronunciation), I got this:

EXTRACT:
UBATZ stands for crazy one in Italian.
FROM:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.vanity-plates.com/w...

I seem to remember that your previous submission had something Italian about it, right?

Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 04:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 4
Grading comment
Thank you to all of you! Yes my previous submission was in italian! There's all sorts in here!! I figured it would mean something like that, but wasn't 100%. Did try google, but not phonetically. (still new to this).

Cheers!
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7 hrs
idiot , imbécile, fou/folle (in French)


Explanation:
Sorry, forgot which language you wanted!

Lia Fail (X)
Spain
Local time: 04:03
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 4
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