Definitions for BOTCH
bɒtʃbotch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-booverb

   an embarrassing mistake

2. 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 upverb

   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"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOTCHnoun

   Etymology: bozza, pronounced botza, Ital.

   1. A swelling, or eruptive discoloration of the skin.

   Time, which rots all, and makes botches pox,
   And, plodding on, must make a calf an ox,
   Hath made a lawyer. John Donne.

   Botches and blains must all his flesh imboss,
   And all his people. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xii. l. 180.

   It proves far more incommodious, which, if it were propelled in boils, botches, or ulcers, as in the scurvy, would rather conduce to health. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

   2. A part in any work ill finished, so as to appear worse than the rest.

   With him,
   To leave no rubs or botches in the work,
   Fleance, his son, must embrace the fate. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   3. An adscititious, adventitious part clumsily added.

   If both those words are not notorious botches, I am much deceived; though the French translator thinks otherways. John Dryden, Æneid. Dedication,.

   A comma ne’er could claim
   A place in any British name;
   Yet, making here a perfect botch,
   Thrusts your poor vowel from his notch. Jonathan Swift.

2. To Botchverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To mend or patch cloaths clumsily.

   Their coats, from botching newly brought, are torn. Dryden.

   2. To mend any thing awkwardly.

   To botch up what th’ had torn and rent,
   Religion and the government. Hudibras, p. iii. c. ii.

   3. To put together unsuitably, or unskilfully; to make up of unsuitable pieces.

   Go with me to my house,
   And hear thou there, how many fruitless pranks
   This ruffian hath botch’d up, that thou thereby
   May smile at this. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

   Her speech is nothing,
   Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
   The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
   And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts. Hamlet.

   For treason botch’d in rhyme will be thy bane;
   Rhime is the rock on which thou art to wreck. Dryden.

   4. To mark with botches.

   Young Hylas, botch’d with stains too foul to name,
   In cradle here renews his youthful frame. Samuel Garth, Dispens.

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1. botch

   A botch is a task, job, or situation that has been handled or carried out clumsily or badly, resulting in failure or an unsatisfactory outcome. It can also refer to the act of carelessly or clumsily making such a mistake or mess.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Botchnoun

   a swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease

2. Botchnoun

   a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner

3. Botchnoun

   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. Botchnoun

   to mark with, or as with, botches

5. Botchnoun

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

6. Botchnoun

   to put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Botch

   Botch was a four-piece mathcore band from Tacoma, Washington, United States, that formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Botch

   boch, n. a swelling on the skin: a clumsy patch: ill-finished work.—v.t. to patch or mend clumsily: to put together unsuitably or unskilfully.—ns. Botch′er, one who botches; Botch′work, Botch′ery.—adj. Botch′y, marked with or full of botches. [From root of Boss.]

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1. botch

   Song lyrics by botch -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by botch on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BOTCH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Botch is ranked #142108 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Botch surname appeared 117 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Botch.
   
   94% or 110 total occurrences were White.

How to pronounce BOTCH?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say BOTCH in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of BOTCH in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of BOTCH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of BOTCH in a Sentence

1. Richard Glossip:

   I am worried they will botch it again.

2. Hunter Biden:

   Mr. President, I can hardly wait. I can hardly wait. You're a serial liar. You're corrupt, and I know you think yourself the handsomest and smartest -- you know, look Mr. President, you've made a botch of the job.

3. Tim McGraw.As it turns out:

   You never want to botch a scene when you got Tom Hanks in there with you, but yeah, Tom Hanks in there's Tom Hanks in there. We've been friends for a long time. Rita, Tom Hanks in there wife, and Faith are best friends, and Tom Hanks in there and I've been friends for 25 years, 24 years. I knew that there was this part in there, and I gave Tom Hanks in there a call said,' Hey, would you be interested in showing up doing a cameo in this show that we're doing ?' And Tom Hanks in there goes,' Tell me when to be there,' and Tom Hanks in there just showed up.'.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=BOTCH
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=BOTCH
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/BOTCH
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=BOTCH
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=BOTCH
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html