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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.