botchern.¹

Brit.

/ˈbɒtʃə/, U.S.

/ˈbɑtʃər/

Forms: Middle English bochchare, Middle English botchar, Middle English botchare, Middle English– botcher; also Scottish pre-1700 bochour.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < botch v.¹ + -er suffix¹. Compare Anglo-Norman boccher, bocher tailor who carries out repairs (1422 or earlier).Compare also bodger n.¹

1. A person who performs a task badly, or produces poor or clumsy work; an unskilful worker; an incompetent maker or deviser (of a thing); a bungler. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > person

blundererc1440

blunt-workerc1440

botcher1440

bumblerc1530

bungler1533

haggler1577

bumbiea1585

tool1699

screw-up1944

foul-up1945

fuck-upc1945

omnishambles2009

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 42 Bochchare or vn-crafty [1499 Pynson botchar], iners.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 288 This Pope Boniface y^e botcher of y^e Decretalls.

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xiii. 4) 120 Ye are not onely..forgers, but..botchers.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 72 To become a botcher of second hand Marriages.

1786 Pedantic Hypocrite Exposed 32 Such clumsy Patch-Work by a Botcher made, Bespeaks an arrant Bungler in the Trade.

1839 Bentley's Miscell. May 470 With such materials [sc. food ingredients] to work upon, he..must be a botcher indeed who could fail to tickle the palate of the most fastidious.

1885 R. Bridges Nero ii. i. 8/1 Thou miserable, painful, hackney-themed Botcher of tragedies.

1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) vii. iii. 157 Joe criticized my work severely, often calling me botcher.

1938 Shakespeare Assoc. Bull. 13 155 He has presented no cogent reason for thinking that this early play of Shakspere's had been revised by a theatrical botcher.

2008 J. Wilson My Sister Jodie (2009) i. 18 I'm a bit of a botcher when it comes to plumbing or painting.

†(a) A person whose occupation is mending shoes; a cobbler. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who

souterc1000

cobbler1362

botcherc1480

cozier1532

translator1594

underlayer1692

snob1785

snab1797

botch1855

clobberer1864

snobber1900

c1480 (a1400) St. Mark l. 78 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 241 He..saw a bochour mend al[d] schone, & gef hyme his scho for to mend.

1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 76 That Iohn the 22. was filius veteramentarij, resarcitoris videlicet sotelarium. That is, the sonne of a Botcher.

1705 J. Stevens tr. ‘A. Fernández de Avellaneda’ Contin. Don Quixote i. iii. 15 Remendon in Spanish is a Botcher or Cobler.

1796 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. I. 99/2 Der Altflicker, a Cobler, a Botcher.

1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 519/1 The he-porter is a cobbler, a botcher, or a blacker of shoes.

1923 E. P. Mathers tr. J. C. Mardrus Bk. of Thousand Nights & One Night XVI. cmlxi. 26 The cobbler tried to placate her..but she..answered: ‘Begone with it, O dog of botchers!’

(b) A tailor who carries out repairs, as opposed to one who makes new clothing. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > repairing or renovating > one who > tailor

botcher1530

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. xxi/1 Botcher of old garmentis, rauavdevr.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C3^v There is a Shomaker, there is a Cobler: a Tailor, and a Botcher.

1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose sig. B3^v Hendrick the Botcher, cease from heeling Hose.

1663 R. Baxter Divine Life i. v. 31 A sorry Taylor may make a Botcher, or a bad Shoomaker may make a Cobler.

1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 61 Like a Botcher in a Paltry Hut, sate cross-leg'd.

1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Sept. (1981) II. 162 Though but a Botcher which is somewhat less than a Taylor.

1833 T. Carlyle Let. 18 Nov. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. xvi. 305 Beeswax and other tailor or botcher apparatus on a little table, the shell of an old coat lying dismembered on the floor.

1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 140 I had to examine all their..trousers, and hold weekly conversation with the botcher, as to the possibility of repairs.

1924 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. ii. 72 In The Weakest Goeth to the Wall..is depicted a botcher, Barnabie Bunch.

2007 E. Cockayne Hubbub iii. 78 Clothes could be taken to a botcher, or botching tailor, for patching and repair.

b. More generally: a person who mends or repairs things. Also figurative. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun]

clouterc1440

maker-up?a1444

botcher1499

repairer?1504

reparationer1520

patcher1528

bodger1538

repareller1546

mender1552

sarcinator1646

vamper1712

piecer1764

renovator1827

repairman1856

fixer?1881

serviceman1905

Mr Fixit1924

fixit man1949

fixit1982

1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. bii^v/1 Botchare of olde thinges, resartor.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L3 The veriest botcher, tinker or cobler freeborne wil dominere ouer a forreiner.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues sig. Vuu v^v/1 Rataconneur, a patcher, botcher, cobler.

1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 13 Physicions are the bodies Coblers, rather the Botchers of mens bodies.

1751 ‘F. Foot’ Nut-cracker Pref. p. xi Mr Carp, the Critic, sent me a Botcher to mend my Work, a snarling Puppy!

1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage I. iii. 51 A botcher of boots and shoes.

1883 Antiquarian Mag. 3 228 Cobbler in old times meant generally a mender or ‘botcher’.

1957 Delaware Folklore Bull. Oct. 28/2 A good botcher (i.e., patcher-up of leaks, etc.).

2003 D. Lawrenson Art of Falling (2005) iv. 48 Menders and botchers of the machinery of war, patchers-up of equipment and shelter.

†3. Perhaps: a (corrupt) broker or middleman. Cf. botchery n. 2, broker n. 5c. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > of a company, etc. > one who

botcher?1518

broker?1518

jobber1739

union jobber1832

fraudster1975

?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hvi Be no toller, catchepoll, nor customer No broker nor botcher, no somner nor sergiaunt..The most of this nomber lyueth..by fraudes and by pollyng.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

botchern.²

Brit.

/ˈbɒtʃə/, U.S.

/ˈbɑtʃər/

Forms: 1600s bocher, 1600s– botcher.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch n.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < botch n.¹ + -er suffix¹, with possible allusion to the spotted markings of the fish.

Chiefly English regional (south-west midlands). Now rare.

A young salmon, esp. a grilse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > on return from sea or in first year

grilse1417

peal1533

botchera1609

blue cap1677

grey1677

pug peal1861

grayling1879

a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. sig. D2 The Bocher sweet, the pleasant Flounder thin.

a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 The salmon growes by theis degrees and ages: vz. 1 a pinke; 2 a botcher; 3 a salmon trout; 4 a gillinge; 5 a salmon.

1783 S. Moreau Tour to Cheltenham Spa 92 The Severn, besides the salmon it produces in great plenty and truly excellent, has the..the elver, also the botchers or salmon peel.

1801 T. Selwyn MS Let. to A. Selwyn We have Salmon and we have botcher If the fisher man chance to cotch her.

1875 Times 26 Aug. Formerly grilse, or botchers, were far more plentiful than they have been.

1906 A. W. Rees in Monthly Rev. 21 I've never hooked a big fish, though I've caught a botcher.

1918 J. A. Hutton Life-Hist. Wye Salmon 16 It was supposed that after staying there a few months they return to the river in the same year as ‘Grilse’ or to use the rather ugly local name as ‘Botchers’.

1948 Citizen (Gloucester) 25 May 5/6 There were more salmon in the river in 1947 than there have been for many years... The total catch of salmon, gillings, and botchers in 1947 was 3,126, compared with 3,313 in 1946.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	botcher
释义	botchern.¹ Brit. /ˈbɒtʃə/, U.S. /ˈbɑtʃər/ Forms: Middle English bochchare, Middle English botchar, Middle English botchare, Middle English– botcher; also Scottish pre-1700 bochour. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: < botch v.¹ + -er suffix¹. Compare Anglo-Norman boccher, bocher tailor who carries out repairs (1422 or earlier).Compare also bodger n.¹ 1. A person who performs a task badly, or produces poor or clumsy work; an unskilful worker; an incompetent maker or deviser (of a thing); a bungler. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > person blundererc1440 blunt-workerc1440 botcher1440 bumblerc1530 bungler1533 haggler1577 bumbiea1585 tool1699 screw-up1944 foul-up1945 fuck-upc1945 omnishambles2009 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 42 Bochchare or vn-crafty [1499 Pynson botchar], iners. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 288 This Pope Boniface y^e botcher of y^e Decretalls. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Job xiii. 4) 120 Ye are not onely..forgers, but..botchers. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World v. i. 72 To become a botcher of second hand Marriages. 1786 Pedantic Hypocrite Exposed 32 Such clumsy Patch-Work by a Botcher made, Bespeaks an arrant Bungler in the Trade. 1839 Bentley's Miscell. May 470 With such materials [sc. food ingredients] to work upon, he..must be a botcher indeed who could fail to tickle the palate of the most fastidious. 1885 R. Bridges Nero ii. i. 8/1 Thou miserable, painful, hackney-themed Botcher of tragedies. 1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) vii. iii. 157 Joe criticized my work severely, often calling me botcher. 1938 Shakespeare Assoc. Bull. 13 155 He has presented no cogent reason for thinking that this early play of Shakspere's had been revised by a theatrical botcher. 2008 J. Wilson My Sister Jodie (2009) i. 18 I'm a bit of a botcher when it comes to plumbing or painting. 2. a. †(a) A person whose occupation is mending shoes; a cobbler. Obsolete (archaic in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who souterc1000 cobbler1362 botcherc1480 cozier1532 translator1594 underlayer1692 snob1785 snab1797 botch1855 clobberer1864 snobber1900 c1480 (a1400) St. Mark l. 78 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 241 He..saw a bochour mend al[d] schone, & gef hyme his scho for to mend. 1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 76 That Iohn the 22. was filius veteramentarij, resarcitoris videlicet sotelarium. That is, the sonne of a Botcher. 1705 J. Stevens tr. ‘A. Fernández de Avellaneda’ Contin. Don Quixote i. iii. 15 Remendon in Spanish is a Botcher or Cobler. 1796 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. I. 99/2 Der Altflicker, a Cobler, a Botcher. 1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 519/1 The he-porter is a cobbler, a botcher, or a blacker of shoes. 1923 E. P. Mathers tr. J. C. Mardrus Bk. of Thousand Nights & One Night XVI. cmlxi. 26 The cobbler tried to placate her..but she..answered: ‘Begone with it, O dog of botchers!’ (b) A tailor who carries out repairs, as opposed to one who makes new clothing. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > repairing or renovating > one who > tailor botcher1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. xxi/1 Botcher of old garmentis, rauavdevr. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C3^v There is a Shomaker, there is a Cobler: a Tailor, and a Botcher. 1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose sig. B3^v Hendrick the Botcher, cease from heeling Hose. 1663 R. Baxter Divine Life i. v. 31 A sorry Taylor may make a Botcher, or a bad Shoomaker may make a Cobler. 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 61 Like a Botcher in a Paltry Hut, sate cross-leg'd. 1783 W. Cowper Let. 23 Sept. (1981) II. 162 Though but a Botcher which is somewhat less than a Taylor. 1833 T. Carlyle Let. 18 Nov. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. xvi. 305 Beeswax and other tailor or botcher apparatus on a little table, the shell of an old coat lying dismembered on the floor. 1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook II. vii. 140 I had to examine all their..trousers, and hold weekly conversation with the botcher, as to the possibility of repairs. 1924 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. ii. 72 In The Weakest Goeth to the Wall..is depicted a botcher, Barnabie Bunch. 2007 E. Cockayne Hubbub iii. 78 Clothes could be taken to a botcher, or botching tailor, for patching and repair. b. More generally: a person who mends or repairs things. Also figurative. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] clouterc1440 maker-up?a1444 botcher1499 repairer?1504 reparationer1520 patcher1528 bodger1538 repareller1546 mender1552 sarcinator1646 vamper1712 piecer1764 renovator1827 repairman1856 fixer?1881 serviceman1905 Mr Fixit1924 fixit man1949 fixit1982 1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. bii^v/1 Botchare of olde thinges, resartor. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. L3 The veriest botcher, tinker or cobler freeborne wil dominere ouer a forreiner. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues sig. Vuu v^v/1 Rataconneur, a patcher, botcher, cobler. 1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 13 Physicions are the bodies Coblers, rather the Botchers of mens bodies. 1751 ‘F. Foot’ Nut-cracker Pref. p. xi Mr Carp, the Critic, sent me a Botcher to mend my Work, a snarling Puppy! 1842 C. Whitehead Richard Savage I. iii. 51 A botcher of boots and shoes. 1883 Antiquarian Mag. 3 228 Cobbler in old times meant generally a mender or ‘botcher’. 1957 Delaware Folklore Bull. Oct. 28/2 A good botcher (i.e., patcher-up of leaks, etc.). 2003 D. Lawrenson Art of Falling (2005) iv. 48 Menders and botchers of the machinery of war, patchers-up of equipment and shelter. †3. Perhaps: a (corrupt) broker or middleman. Cf. botchery n. 2, broker n. 5c. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > of a company, etc. > one who botcher?1518 broker?1518 jobber1739 union jobber1832 fraudster1975 ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hvi Be no toller, catchepoll, nor customer No broker nor botcher, no somner nor sergiaunt..The most of this nomber lyueth..by fraudes and by pollyng. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). botchern.² Brit. /ˈbɒtʃə/, U.S. /ˈbɑtʃər/ Forms: 1600s bocher, 1600s– botcher. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch n.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < botch n.¹ + -er suffix¹, with possible allusion to the spotted markings of the fish. Chiefly English regional (south-west midlands). Now rare. A young salmon, esp. a grilse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > on return from sea or in first year grilse1417 peal1533 botchera1609 blue cap1677 grey1677 pug peal1861 grayling1879 a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) ii. sig. D2 The Bocher sweet, the pleasant Flounder thin. a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1885) III. 319 The salmon growes by theis degrees and ages: vz. 1 a pinke; 2 a botcher; 3 a salmon trout; 4 a gillinge; 5 a salmon. 1783 S. Moreau Tour to Cheltenham Spa 92 The Severn, besides the salmon it produces in great plenty and truly excellent, has the..the elver, also the botchers or salmon peel. 1801 T. Selwyn MS Let. to A. Selwyn We have Salmon and we have botcher If the fisher man chance to cotch her. 1875 Times 26 Aug. Formerly grilse, or botchers, were far more plentiful than they have been. 1906 A. W. Rees in Monthly Rev. 21 I've never hooked a big fish, though I've caught a botcher. 1918 J. A. Hutton Life-Hist. Wye Salmon 16 It was supposed that after staying there a few months they return to the river in the same year as ‘Grilse’ or to use the rather ugly local name as ‘Botchers’. 1948 Citizen (Gloucester) 25 May 5/6 There were more salmon in the river in 1947 than there have been for many years... The total catch of salmon, gillings, and botchers in 1947 was 3,126, compared with 3,313 in 1946. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹1440n.²a1609
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