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/Sounds like "chah" (as in "chat") + "POO" (as in "pool") + "sah" (as in "salsa")/
A rushed, sloppy job done badly and left half-finished. In Spain, a 'chapuza' is the renovation that makes everything worse, the repair that broke two other things, the shortcut that turned into a disaster. The bricklayer who did a chapuza is somewhere between criminal and legendary.
“What a botched job, the door doesn't even close properly now.”
“He patched the pipe with a chapuza and it leaked again the next day.”
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/Sounds like "chah" (as in "chat") + "POO" (as in "pool") + "sah" (as in "salsa")/
A rushed, sloppy job done badly and left half-finished. In Spain, a 'chapuza' is the renovation that makes everything worse, the repair that broke two other things, the shortcut that turned into a disaster. The bricklayer who did a chapuza is somewhere between criminal and legendary.
“What a botched job, the door doesn't even close properly now.”
“He patched the pipe with a chapuza and it leaked again the next day.”
Orsai
Argentine lunfardo for offside in soccer, a deformation of the English word. By extension, used to say someone is out of place, wrong-footed, or put their foot in it socially.