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English

Noun

byotch (plural byotches)

1. Alternative form of bioch

Anagrams

• botchy

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.