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botch1

–verb (used with object)

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.

–noun

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

]

—Related forms

botch·ed·ly

Audio Help [boch-id-lee] Pronunciation Key, adverb

botcher, noun

botch·er·y, noun

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

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–noun

1.	a swelling on the skin; a boil.

2.	an eruptive disease.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME bocche < OF boche, dial. var. of boce boss²

]

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botch Audio Help (bŏch) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es

To ruin through clumsiness.
To make or perform clumsily; bungle.
To repair or mend clumsily.

A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
A hodgepodge.

[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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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"

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.]

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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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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