different between bodge vs botch

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German b?zan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English b?tettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English b?tian (“to get better”). More at boot.

Verb

bodge (third-person singular simple present bodges, present participle bodging, simple past and past participle bodged)

1. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kludge
2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Translations

Noun

bodge (plural bodges)

1. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:workaround

Derived terms

• bodge job

Related terms

• bodger
• botch

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

bodge (plural bodges)

1. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
2. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

Adjective

bodge (comparative more bodge, superlative most bodge)

1. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

Anagrams

• bedog, begod

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English b?tettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat.

Verb

botch (third-person singular simple present botches, present participle botching, simple past and past participle botched)

1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

   Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil

2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. To repair or mend clumsily.

   Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge

Translations

Noun

botch (plural botches)

1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.

   Synonym: bungler

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good-natured—he's a gentleman, Sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-bye.

Translations

Related terms

• bodge

See also

• foul up
• mess up
• screw up

Etymology 2

From Middle English botche, from Anglo-Norman boche, from Late Latin bocia (“boss”).

Noun

botch (plural botches)

1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.