Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Jörg Knappen wrote on Fri, Dec 2, 2011 07:48 AM UTC:Patzer has definitely german relations, there is the verb 'verpatzen' in german, meaning to crab, to mull, to fluff, to foozle, to snafu. I don't know its further etymology, it is quite possible that it is either yiddish oder rotwelsch. Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Nomenclature_Che does not match any item.