What does botch mean?
Definitions for botch
bɒtʃbotch
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word botch.
Princeton's WordNet
blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-booverb
an embarrassing mistake
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 Dictionary
BOTCHnoun
Etymology: bozza, pronounced botza, Ital.
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.
With him,
To leave no rubs or botches in the work,
Fleance, his son, must embrace the fate. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.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.To Botchverb
Etymology: from the noun.
Their coats, from botching newly brought, are torn. Dryden.
To botch up what th’ had torn and rent,
Religion and the government. Hudibras, p. iii. c. ii.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.Young Hylas, botch’d with stains too foul to name,
In cradle here renews his youthful frame. Samuel Garth, Dispens.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Botchnoun
a swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease
Botchnoun
a patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner
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
Botchnoun
to mark with, or as with, botches
Botchnoun
to repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up
Botchnoun
to put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work
Wikidata
Botch
Botch was a four-piece mathcore band from Tacoma, Washington, United States, that formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of botch in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of botch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of botch in a Sentence
I am worried they will botch it again.
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.'.
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.
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- извършвам нескопосано, нескопосана работа, скърпвамBulgarian
- fušovatCzech
- Pfusch, verpfuschen, vermurksen, pfuschen, MurksGerman
- fuŝaĵo, fuŝiEsperanto
- desbarrar, chapuza, chapucear, pifia, chapuceríaSpanish
- tunaroidaFinnish
- saccager, rater, bâclerFrench
- elront, kontárkodik, elfuserál, elszúrHungarian
- slurveNorwegian
- verprutsenDutch
- arruinar, atrapalhar-sePortuguese
- халтура, запоротьRussian
- sfušeriti, upropastitiSerbo-Croatian
- เพลี่ยงพล้ำThai
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