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botch
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)
- (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
- Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil
- To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
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- To repair or mend clumsily.
- Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge
Translations
Noun
botch (plural botches)
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
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- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
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- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- (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)
- (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
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botcher
English
Etymology
botch +? -er
Noun
botcher (plural botchers)
- (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
- A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
- 1874, The Quarterly Review (volume 137, page 388)
- Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
- 1874, The Quarterly Review (volume 137, page 388)
- A young salmon; a grilse.
Related terms
- botch
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