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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/
- (transitive) to fiddle with, to muck about with
- (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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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