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Botch

//bɒt͡ʃ// noun, verb

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

    "That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:"

  2. 2
    A tumour or other malignant swelling. obsolete, transitive

    "Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,"

  3. 3
    an embarrassing mistake wordnet
  4. 4
    A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. transitive
  5. 5
    A case or outbreak of boils or sores. transitive

    "The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed."

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  1. 6
    A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing. transitive
  2. 7
    A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge. transitive
  3. 8
    One who makes a mess of something. archaic, transitive

    "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-by."

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

    "A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out."

  2. 2
    make a mess of, destroy or ruin wordnet
  3. 3
    To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily. transitive
  4. 4
    To mend or repair (something) clumsily. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

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