Butz

Onomatopoeic; compare southern German Bussi (“kiss”) and similar forms in many languages. But possibly based on, or conflated with, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to push”). A second sense “push” is attested for some Central Franconian dialects. It may even be the older one if Dutch botsen (“collide”) is borrowed from it (as supposed in some of the literature).

• IPA^(key): /buts/

Butz m (plural Bütz, diminutive Bützje)

1. (chiefly Ripuarian) kiss

   Jevv mer ens e Bützje odder häs de mich nemmieh jään?

   So give me a kiss, or don’t you love me anymore?

• bütze

• IPA^(key): [bʊt͡s]
• Hyphenation: Butz

From Butzen.

Butz m (weak, genitive Butzen, plural Butzen)

1. (regional outside Austria) apple core

• “Butz” in Duden online

From Middle High German butze, related to Low German butt (“clumsy”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *buttaz.^[1]

Butz m (weak, genitive Butzen, plural Butzen)

2. (regional) goblin

• “Butz” in Duden online
• “Butz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache