different between grilse vs botcher

English

Etymology

From Middle English grills, grilles, of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots grils, grissill, girls (“young salmon”). Compare English grawl, Scots grawl, graulse (“young salmon, grilse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ls/
• Rhymes: -?ls

Noun

grilse (plural grilses)

1. A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
   • 1961, Albert Upton, Design for Thinking: A First Book in Semantics, Stanford University Press, page 4:

     In our own tongue salmon are fry as babies, parr as children, smolt as adolescents, and grilse as adults.

Synonyms

• grilt

Translations

Anagrams

• Sigler, Sliger, e-girls, egirls, elrigs, girles, ligers

English

Etymology

botch +? -er

Noun

botcher (plural botchers)

1. (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
2. 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.

3. A young salmon; a grilse.

Related terms

• botch

Translations

Anagrams

• tech bro