potinejar

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Catalan

Etymology

From dialectal potina (hodgepodge) +‎ -ejar.

Pronunciation

Verb

potinejar (first-person singular present potinejo, first-person singular preterite potinegí, past participle potinejat); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/

  1. (transitive) to fiddle with, to muck about with
  2. (transitive) to bungle, to botch, to make a hash of
    • 2018 January 17, Jordi Martínez, “Potinejar els valors”, in Diari de Girona:
      Curiosament, però, l'escola sempre acaba essent l'objecte de tots els intents possibles per potinejar-la, per malmenar-la, per qüestionar-la.
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  3. (intransitive) to muck about
    • 2009 September 29, “Castells demana a ERC i CiU que "no potinegin" el procés de fusió de caixes”, in Diari de Girona, sourced from efe/acn/ddg:
      El conseller d'Economia, Antoni Castells, va destacar ahir que fins ara els partits s'han mantingut al marge del procés de fusió de caixes d'estalvis a Catalunya i ha apel·lat les formacions catalanes a continuar sense "potinejar" en aquest assumpte.
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