fatootsed

Alternative Spellings

fartootst, fartootsed, fatutst, fatootst, fartutst

Definitions

• enervated, played out, knackered, terminally fatigued
• bewildered, disoriented, discombobulated
• distracted, frustrated (New York Stagehand Glossary)

Example Sentences

• "The intensity of the campaign left him fatootsed."
• "On the day my girlfriend broke up with me, I was so fatootsed that I didn't get anything done at work."
• "Trying to read Hebrew for the first time left me totally fatootsed."
• "Leroy, before you see it and get all fatootsed, I thought I’d explain about our garage being out in the street." (https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-fat1.htm)

Languages of Origin

German

Etymology

verdutzt 'puzzled, baffled, disconcerted'

Who Uses This

Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
Non-Jews: (words that have spread outside of Jewish networks)

Regions

North America, Great Britain

Dictionaries

The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).

Notes

The word is listed in Leo Rosten's "The New Joys of Yiddish" but isn't documented in any Yiddish dictionaries. The New York Stagehand Glossary says the word may be "fake Yiddish," but the most likely possibility is that the word came directly from German into English, as Rosten does cite the word as coming from a real German word. The word may have been historically used by Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, but even if it was ever a word in Yiddish at all, it is very unlikely that it was ever a common word in Yiddish speech.