'Botch' definitions:
Definition of 'Botch'
From: GCIDE
- Botch \Botch\, n.; pl. Botches. [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
- 1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] [1913 Webster]
- Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Botch'
From: GCIDE
- Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.]
- 1. To mark with, or as with, botches. [1913 Webster]
- Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]
- Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. --Robynson (More's Utopia). [1913 Webster]
- 3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. [1913 Webster]
- For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Botch'
From: Easton
- Botch the name given in Deut. 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Ex. 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.).
Synonyms of 'botch'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anamorphosis,
- bad job,
- bad likeness,
- bat out,
- be all thumbs,
- bevue,
- bitch up,
- blight,
- blow,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- bobble,
- boggle,
- bollix,
- bonehead play,
- boner,
- boo-boo,
- botchery,
- bugger up,
- bumble,
- bungle,
- bungling,
- burlesque,
- butcher,
- caricature,
- clumsy performance,
- cobble,
- commit a gaffe,
- confuse,
- dash off,
- daub,
- destroy,
- disorder,
- distortion,
- do anyhow,
- do by halves,
- do carelessly,
- do offhand,
- dub,
- error,
- etourderie,
- fake up,
- faux pas,
- fiasco,
- flounder,
- flub,
- fluff,
- flunk,
- foozle,
- fudge up,
- fumble,
- gaffe,
- gaucherie,
- goof up,
- gum up,
- haphazardness,
- hash,
- indiscretion,
- jury-rig,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knock together,
- lash up,
- loose ends,
- louse up,
- lumber,
- make a blunder,
- make a misstep,
- mangle,
- mar,
- mess,
- mess up,
- messiness,
- misconduct,
- miscue,
- misdraw,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- mispaint,
- misspeak,
- mistake,
- mix-up,
- muck,
- muck up,
- mucker,
- muddle,
- muff,
- mull,
- murder,
- muss,
- mutilate,
- off day,
- parody,
- patch,
- patch together,
- patch up,
- play havoc with,
- play hell with,
- pound out,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- ruin,
- sad work,
- scratch,
- screw up,
- scribble,
- shambles,
- slap up,
- slapdash,
- slip,
- slipshoddiness,
- slipshodness,
- sloppiness,
- slovenliness,
- slovenly performance,
- slovenry,
- sluttishness,
- solecism,
- spoil,
- stumble,
- stupidity,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- tinker,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- toss together,
- travesty,
- trifle with,
- trip,
- untidiness,
- washout,
- whomp up,
- wreck