тяп-ляп

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Russian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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тя́п-ля́п (tjáp-ljáp)

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

Synonyms

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References

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