Botch

Botch

n.

pl. Botches

  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]
    Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
  2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  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.
    To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.

Botch

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching

  1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
    Young Hylas, botched with stains.
    — Garth.
  2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
    Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
    — Robynson (More's Utopia).
  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.
    For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.