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Botch   /bɑtʃ/   Listen
verb
Botch  v. t.  (past & past part. botched; pres. part. botching)  
1.
To mark with, or as with, botches. "Young Hylas, botched with stains."
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."
3.
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. "For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane."


noun
Botch  n.  (pl. botches)  
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."
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."





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"Botch" Quotes from Famous Books



... told me they had been drinking and had made a botch of it inside the bank. Instead of carrying out the plan originally formed, seizing the cashier at his window and getting to the safe without interruption, they leaped right over the counter and scared Heywood at the very start. As to the rest of ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger
... your picture that he televisioned to Athalia," she said. "What a botch Dr. Mundson has made of his mating." Her laugh rippled like falling water. "I want ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various
... and that's why Sam was trying to get the best of us. We attempted to capture him, but made a botch ...
— Messenger No. 48 • James Otis
... Tully, stroking her head clumsily with his large hand. "I've made a botch of it. I'd ought to 'a' let your ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... late Secretary of the Treasury,[7] was a conspicuous member of this body, and took the lead in the business of annexation, in co-operation with the Secretary of State; and I must say that they did their business faithfully and thoroughly; there was no botch left in it. They rounded it off, and made as close joiner-work as ever was exhibited. Resolutions of annexation were brought into Congress, fitly joined together, compact, efficient, conclusive upon the great object which they had in ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster


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