papocchia
Italian
Noun
papocchia f (plural papocchie) (Naples, Rome)
- (literally) soft jelly
- (figuratively) botch, botched work or writing, mess
- Synonyms: pasticcio, pastrocchio
- (figuratively) nonsense, poppycock
- Synonyms: fandonia, pastocchia
- (figuratively) scam, con
- Synonyms: raggiro, imbroglio