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動詞

platz (third-person singular simple present platzes, present participle platzing, simple past and past participle platzed)

1. (intransitive) To become aggravated.
   • 2014 July 17, Daniel Harris, “Breaking the Law: why the rule on false starts in athletics is an ass”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 March 2017:

     There is a yiddish 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.

   • 2021 June 21, Daniel Harris, “Ukraine 0-1 Austria: Euro 2020 – as it happened”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 September 2021, Preamble:

     And across Europe, there’ll be players and supporters platzing for exactly that: a positive result here, followed by a win for Belgium over Finland later on, and three points plus a goal difference of 0 will be enough to secure a spot in the knockout stage.

語源 2

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

名詞

platz (plural platzes)

1. A public square in Germany.
   • 2003 November 2, Tom Templeton, “Worth more than 15 minutes”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 9 March 2021:

     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.

   • 2006 July 30, “Zeitgeist of the platzes”, in The Morning Call‎, archived from the original on 19 August 2026:

     Once the most German and Old World flavored of the platzes, Festplatz strays from its all-polka-all-the-time roots once again to to offer five nights of variety, including funk/pop, rock ‘n’ roll, country, oldies and swing.

   • 2007 September 1, “At home with Hitler”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 March 2016:

     "It was an ordinary semi-corner old-fashioned building on a platz," [Lee] Miller wrote in her diary.