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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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