тяп-ляп

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Russian

Etymology

Reduplication of ляп (ljap), of onomatopoeic origin. Compare тяпать (tjapatʹ), ляпать (ljapatʹ)

Pronunciation

Adverb

тя́п-ля́п (tjáp-ljáp)

  1. (colloquial) willy-nilly, slapdash (hastily or haphazardly)
  2. (colloquial) incompetently, half-assed

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “тяп-ляп”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa