botch — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   ruinbungle

   Examples

   A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.

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   And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]

2. To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.

   Usage

   • Transitive

3. To mend or repair (something) clumsily.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   bodge

Noun

1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:

2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

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   • Transitive

3. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.

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   • Transitive

4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.

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   • Transitive

5. One who makes a mess of something.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   bungler

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   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.

Noun

1. A tumour or other malignant swelling.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Transitive

   Examples

   Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,

2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

   Usage

   • Transitive

   Examples

   The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.

Noun

1. an embarrassing mistake

   Synonyms

   blunderblooperbloomerbunglepratfallfoul-upfuckupflubbonerboo-boo

   Broader terms

   mistakeerrorfault

Verb

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

   Synonyms

   bodgebumblefumblebotch upmuffblowflubscrew upball upspoilmuck upbunglefluffbollixbollix upbollocksbollocks upbobblemishandlelouse upfoul upmess upfuck up

   Broader terms

   failgo wrongmiscarry

   Examples

   I botched the dinner and we had to eat out

   the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement