/Sounds like 'cha-poo-SEH-ro'/
In Spain, someone who does sloppy, half-finished work with no regard for quality. A chapucero always looks busy but the results are consistently terrible — the handyman who makes everything worse.
Example
"Don't hire him, he's a total hack and he'll ruin everything."
"They did a sloppy job and we had to redo the whole thing."
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/Sounds like 'cha-poo-SEH-ro'/
In Spain, someone who does sloppy, half-finished work with no regard for quality. A chapucero always looks busy but the results are consistently terrible — the handyman who makes everything worse.
Example
"Don't hire him, he's a total hack and he'll ruin everything."
"They did a sloppy job and we had to redo the whole thing."
Word family
Regional synonyms: