chapuza

Meaning

Noun

1. (colloquial, feminine) work, especially maintenance and involving manual labor, of little importance; odd job; jury-rigged
2. (colloquial, feminine) something poorly done; botched job, shoddy work, botch
3. (Mexico, colloquial, feminine) cheat, trick, cheating, deceit (specially in sports, games, gambling, elections, seldom in commerce, almost never in sentimental relationships)

Verb

1. (colloquial, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of chapuzar:
2. (colloquial, form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of chapuzar:

chapuzar

1. (transitive) to submerge the head of someone or somebody
2. (intransitive, reflexive) to submerge one's own head, to dive in head first

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Concepts

botch

bungle

clanger

error

fault

flub

gaffe

lapse

mischief

mistake

slip

blunder

sloppiness

Synonyms

equivocación

trampa

🪤

yerro

birria

🗑️

chapucería

remiendo

pifia

descache

chapu

ñapa

mateo

peorrada

zarramplinada

Translations

rafistolage

Pfusch

nyap

abborracciatura

grober Fehler

Fehler

llorigó

Murks

Missgriff

pífia

Pfuscharbeit

Schlamperei

Schnitzer

Machwerk

Hyphenated as

cha‧pu‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/t͡ʃaˈpuθa/

Etymology

Deverbal from chapuzar.