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BOTCHER

[boch]

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verb (used with object)

to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up): He botched up the job thoroughly.

to do or say in a bungling manner.

to mend or patch in a clumsy manner.

noun

a clumsy or poor piece of work; mess; bungle: He made a complete botch of his first attempt at baking.

a clumsily added part or patch.

a disorderly or confused combination; conglomeration.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English bocchen to patch up; perhaps to be identified with bocchen to swell up, bulge (verbal derivative of bocche botch²), though sense development unclear

Related forms

botch·ed·ly

[boch-id-lee] , adverb

botch·er, noun

botch·er·y, noun

Synonyms
1. ruin, mismanage; muff, butcher, flub.

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botch (bɒtʃ)

—vb (often foll by up)
1.	to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
2.	to repair badly or clumsily

—n
3.	Also called: botch-up a badly done piece of work or repair (esp in the phrase make a botch of (something))

[C14: of unknown origin]

'botcher

—n

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botch

late 14c., bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1520s); of unknown origin.

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