Butzen
German, noun
Butzen is a German masculine noun meaning “apple core” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of Butze. On this page, bützen is a different word: “to kiss (most often in the context of Rhenish carnival)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Übrigen Kerngehäuse des Apfels oder der Birne”.
What does Butzen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapple core
- 2
masculinebulging, thickening in glass
noun
- 1
plural of Butze
verb
- 1
to kiss (most often in the context of Rhenish carnival)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. im Übrigen Kerngehäuse des Apfels oder der Birne 2. Verdickung (zum Beispiel in Glasscheiben oder bei Geschwüren) 3. Klümpchen (aus verhärteter weicher Materie, etwa Eiter, Augenflüssigkeit oder Nasenschleim) 4. Mineralmasse im Gestein, die unregelmäßig geformt ist
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Butzen
- bützt present singular third-person
- bützte past
- gebützt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- bützend participle present
- bütze first-person indicative present
- bützest second-person singular subjunctive
- bützet plural second-person subjunctive
- bützten first-person indicative plural
- bütztest indicative preterite second-person
- bütztet indicative plural preterite
- bütz imperative second-person singular
- habe gebützt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gebützt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- Butzens genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Butzen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Butzen in German?
Butzen appears about once in every 8 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).