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 Definitions of botch  [ɒtʃ]  

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Definition of 'botch' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (v.t.) botch
to spoil by poor work; bungle.

2.  botch
to do or say in a bungling manner.

3.  botch
to mend or patch in a clumsy manner.

4. (n.) botch
a poor piece of work; mess; bungle.

5.  botch
a clumsily added part or patch.

Etymology:  (1350–1400; ME bocchen to patch up; of uncert. orig.)

Definition of 'botch' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (verb) blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo
an embarrassing mistake

2. (verb) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
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"


Definition of 'botch' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) botch
a swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease

2. (noun) botch
a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner

3. (noun) botch
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

4. (noun) botch
to mark with, or as with, botches

5. (noun) botch
to repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up

6. (noun) botch
to put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work



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