Etymology

putsch

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Today it means: A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government. Full definition →

German Putsch ← Alemannic German Putsch
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  1. Alemannic German · derived fromPutsch“knock, thrust, blow”
  2. German · borrowed fromPutsch
  3. English todayputsch

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

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