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In some senses, botch is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
VERB + BOTCH
didn't, doesn't, don't, hope, hopes, made
BOTCH + NOUN
bungle, egypt, job, things, vp
PREP.
on, with
verb
To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]
To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
To mend or repair (something) clumsily.
noun
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
One who makes a mess of something.
If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.
noun
A tumour or other malignant swelling.
Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.
A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
WiktionaryAnd other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]
WiktionaryThat I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
WiktionaryIf it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying,
WiktionaryBotches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,
WiktionaryThe Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.
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In some senses, botch is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.