тяп-ляп

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Russian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Reduplication of ляп (ljap), of onomatopoeic origin.[1] Compare тяпать (tjapatʹ), ляпать (ljapatʹ)

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

тя́п-ля́п • (tjáp-ljáp)

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

Synonyms

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “тяп-ляп”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=тяп-ляп&oldid=75769878"