botch

botch
botch1
botchedly /boch"id lee/, adv.botcher, n.botchery, n.
/boch/, v.t.
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.
n.
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.
[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]
Syn. 1. ruin, mismanage; muff, butcher, flub.
botch2
/boch/, n.
1. a swelling on the skin; a boil.
2. an eruptive disease.
[1350-1400; ME bocche < OF boche, dial. var. of boce BOSS2]

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