Translation
to botch, to bungle, to mess up
Word origin
Generally traced to German pfuschen, 'to bungle, to do shoddy work'. It is one of the Germanic roots in Esperanto's otherwise heavily Romance vocabulary, and it kept the German sense unchanged.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- pfuschen
Examples
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He botched the job and had to start again.
!
Do not mess this up!
, .
She ruined the cake, but we ate it.
is to do something badly rather than to fail outright: the work gets finished, it is just no good. Compare i, which is to fail, and , which is to damage a thing that was fine before. The noun fuŝo is a botch-up, o is a bungler, and fuŝ- works as a prefix on any noun you want to call shoddy, as in fuŝlaboro.
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