4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
botch
n : an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper}, {bungle},
{foul-up}, {fuckup}, {flub}, {boner}, {boo-boo}, {misdoing}]
v : make a mess of destroy or ruin [syn: {fumble}, {botch up},
{muff}, {blow}, {flub}, {screw up}, {ball up}, {blunder},
{spoil}, {muck up}, {bungle}, {fluff}, {bollix}, {bollix
up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up}, {bobble}, {mishandle}, {louse
up}, {foul up}, {mess up}, {fuck up}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Botch
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.).
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