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MUSCOVITE Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

"very poor worker", "very poorly done work" (*)

Hi,

How to convey this idea (*) in English?

I am interested in slang terms

( for those few who fluently speaks both English and Russian :-) how to translate "khaltura" into English?)

Thank you

muscovite
  

Top answer

I believe the term khaltura can mean either “side-job” or poorly done work. - vocabfish

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I believe the term khaltura can mean either “side-job” or poorly done work.

- vocabfish
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Sorry, I should have been clearer.....

I am looking for slang terms for "poorly done work". ( Leaving aside "khaltura" - side-job, moonlighting").

I wonder if the following terms

(1) cruftsmanship

(2) hackwork

are commonly used as synonyms to "poorly done job" in everyday English??

AFAIK, (1) and(2) both originated from "computer talk", didn