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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/vertuschen

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, V (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
vertuschen
Friedrich Kluge2507802An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, V — vertuschen1891John Francis Davis

vertuschen, vb., ‘to hush up,’ from MidHG. vertuschen, ‘to cover, conceal, keep secret, reduce to silence’ (to which verdutzt, lit. ‘stunned,’ is allied’); an onomatopoetic term.