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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOTCH, n. [Eng.patch.]
1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection.
Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss.
2. A patch,or the part of a garment patched or mended in a
clumsy manner; ill-finished work in mending.
3. That which resembles a botch; a part added clumsily; adventitious or ill-applied words.
If those words are not notorious botches, I am deceived.
BOTCH, v.t. To mend or patch with a needle or awl, in a clumsy manner, as a garment; to mend or repair awkwardly, as a system of government.
1. To put together unsuitable, or unskillfully; to make use of unsuitable pieces.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
2. To mark with botches.
Young Hylas botched with stains.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo] v
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" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English boche, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *bottia boss Date: 14th century an inflammatory sore II. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English bocchen Date: 1530 1. to foul up hopelessly — often used with up 2. to put together in a makeshift way • botcher noun III. noun Date: 1605 1. something that is botched ; mess 2. patchwork, hodgepodge • botchy adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. (also bodge) --v.tr. 1 bungle; do badly. 2 patch or repair clumsily. --n. bungled or spoilt work (made a botch of it). Derivatives: botcher n. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

Botch Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches. Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth. 2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(botches, botching, botched) 1. If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. (INFORMAL) It is a silly idea and he has botched it. ...a botched job. = bungle VERB: V n, V-ed • Botch up means the same as botch. I hate having builders botch up repairs on my house... Hemingway complained that Nichols had 'botched everything up'. = mess up PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 2. If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it. (INFORMAL) I rather made a botch of that whole thing. = mess N-COUNT: usu sing

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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.).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See BOIL.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Pustule, blotch, blain, sore. 2. Failure, miscarriage, bad work, bad job, clumsy performance, bungling piece of work. II. v. a. 1. Mend awkwardly, patch clumsily. 2. Put together unskilfully, construct in a bungling manner.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A nick name for a taylor.

Moby Thesaurus

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