Definition of "botch"

botch¹

/bɒt͡ʃ/

verb
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
2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
3. To repair or mend clumsily.
noun
plural botches
1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
  Quotations
  That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i], page 140, column 2
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.
4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
  Quotations
  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-bye.
  1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […]

botch²

/bɒt͡ʃ/

noun
plural botches
1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  Quotations
  Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, line 1071
2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
  Quotations
  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.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Deuteronomy 28:27

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