Botch

Definitions

1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
   transitive
2. A tumour or other malignant swelling.
   obsolete, transitive
3. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
   transitive
4. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
   transitive
5. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
   transitive
6. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
   transitive
7. One who makes a mess of something.
   archaic, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“That I require⟳ a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:”

“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.”

“Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,”

“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.”

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