botches

Noun (1)

botch (plural botches)

1. (transitive) 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: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...
2. (transitive) A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. (transitive) A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
4. (transitive) A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic, transitive) 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.1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Æsculapius to the Rescue”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 149

   Synonyms:

   bungler

Noun (2)

botch (plural botches)

1. (obsolete, transitive) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
   • Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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