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| 1. | to spoil by poor work; bungle (often fol. by up): He botched up the job thoroughly. |
| 2. | to do or say in a bungling manner. |
| 3. | to mend or patch in a clumsy manner. |
| 4. | a clumsy or poor piece of work; mess; bungle: He made a complete botch of his first attempt at baking. |
| 5. | a clumsily added part or patch. |
| 6. | a disorderly or confused combination; conglomeration. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME bocchen to patch up; perh. to be identified with bocchen to swell up, bulge (v. deriv. of bocche botch2), though sense development unclear
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botcher, noun
botch·er·y, noun
—Synonyms 1. ruin, mismanage; muff, butcher, flub.
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| 1. | a swelling on the skin; a boil. |
| 2. | an eruptive disease. |
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tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es
n.
[Middle English bocchen, to mend.] botch'er n., botch'y adj. Synonyms: These verbs mean to harm or spoil through inept or clumsy handling: botch a repair; blow an opportunity; bungle an interview; fumbled my chance to apologize; muffed the painting job. |
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botch
1382, bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1530), of unknown origin.
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| botch | |
noun | |
| 1. | an embarrassing mistake |
verb | |
| 1. | make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
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Main Entry: botch
Pronunciation: 'bäch
Function: noun
: an inflammatory sore
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Botch
Boss\ (b[o^]s; 115), n.; pl. Bosses (-[e^]z). [OE. boce, bose, boche, OF. boce, boche, bosse, F. bosse, of G. origin; cf. OHG. b[=o]zo tuft, bunch, OHG. b[=o]zan, MHG. b[^o]zen, to beat. See Beat, and cf. Botch a swelling.]1. Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood. 2. A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus. 3. (Arch.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations. 4. [Cf. D. bus box, Dan. b["o]sse.] A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. --Gwilt. 5. (Mech.) (a) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another. (b) A swage or die used for shaping metals. 6. A head or reservoir of water. [Obs.]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Botch
Botch\, n.; pl. Botches. [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. --Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Botch
the name given in Deut. 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Ex. 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.).
| Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary |
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