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Rhymes: -ɒtʃ

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat.

botch (third-person singular simple present botches, present participle botching, simple past and past participle botched)

(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil

A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
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To repair or mend clumsily.
Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge

to perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner

to do something without skill, without care, or clumsily

botch (plural botches)

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
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- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 140, column 2:
  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.
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A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
(archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
Synonym: bungler
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
  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-bye.

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly

a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle

a mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing

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botch (plural botches)

(obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
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A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:27:
  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.