botch
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
Verb (1)
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin“I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”“the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”Synonyms: bodgebumblefumblebotch upmuffblowflubscrew upball upspoilmuck upbunglefluffbollixbollix upbollocksbollocks upbobblemishandlelouse upfoul upmess upfuck up
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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.] [1913 Webster]
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
1.To mark with, or as with, botches. [1913 Webster]
Young Hylas, botched with stains.— Garth.[1913 Webster]
2.To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.— Robynson (More's Utopia).[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]