vermasseln

Meaning

to blow, to screw up, to botch

Frequency

C1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

verkachle

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

verkaibe

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

versaue

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/fɛɐ̯ˈmasəln/
Etymology

Derived around 1900 from ver- + Massel (“luck”), a loan from Yiddish מזל (mazel, “luck, destiny”), from Medieval Hebrew מַזָּל (mazzāl).

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