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botched, ppl. a.|bɒtʃt|
[f. botch v.1 + -ed.]
Mended or patched in a bungling manner; clumsily put together; cobbled. Hence ˈbotchedly adv.
1568Duke of Norfolk in Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots App. 27 You schall make but boched work yf you doe not sowndlie and perfectlye conclude thowes dyfferencys. 1733G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. §4 This Cement never makes them the same continued Organ, scarce any thing but a botch'd or clouted one. 1752Hume Idea Perf. Commw. Ess. (1777) I. 524 The common botched and inaccurate governments seem to serve the purposes of society. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. viii, A botched mass of tailors' and cobblers' shreds. 1879Spectator 31 May 681 The Peace is a botched-up affair, bringing Great Britain nothing, etc.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. lxvii, Thus patch they Heaven more botch'dly then old cloths. |