botch

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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.

Verb

botch (third-person singular simple present botches, present participle botching, simple past and past participle botched)

  1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
    Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil
    A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
  2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
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  3. To repair or mend clumsily.
    Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge
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Noun

botch (plural botches)

  1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
  2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  3. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
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  4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
  5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
    Synonym: bungler
    • 1863, J Sheridan Le Fanu, “Æsculapius to the Rescue”, in The House by the Church-yard. , volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC, page 149:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

botch (plural botches)

  1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, line 1071:
      Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
  2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
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