Word of the day, a yiddish slang word:

farpotshket

broken, because someone tried to fix it

This word doesn't just describe something that is broken, but something that is broken specifically because someone else tried to fix it, making it worse. It is used most commonly today to describe software engineering projects.

@benteh @donmelton we have that in German too but unlike many other Yiddish words it doesn’t seem to be related: verschlimmbessern (directly translated to English could be worse-fixing).