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单词 botchy
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botchyadj.1

Forms: see botch n.1 and -y suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < botch n.1 + -y suffix1.
Obsolete.
Having or characterized by swellings, sores, or infection; resembling or characteristic of a botch (in various senses of botch n.1).In quot. a1500: hunchbacked; cf. botch n.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [adjective]
swollenc1325
bolnedc1380
botchya1398
tumid?1541
tumefied1597
tumefacted1598
proud1607
tumoured1635
hobbeda1722
swelled1733
all of a lump1738
jogged1746
nodular1872
youstered1894
micronodular1960
macronodular1967
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xlix. 399 Lest þe place abide bocchy, nouȝt wel ihelyd.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) v. xxiv. sig. bviiv/2 The voys is made & composyd of ye grystels, ye fyrst is knotty & botchy.
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 710/4 Gibbosus, bochy.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 115/2 In the priuye members of his body there happened vnto him a sodayn putrification, and after..a botchie corrupt byle.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. i. 6 Were not that a botchy core. View more context for this quotation
?1685 T. Tryon Good House-wife 140 Botchy Sores and Leprosies, which quickly corrupt the Flesh.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 59 We may claim Mahometism as a botchy excrescence or spurious offspring of the Gospel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

botchyadj.2

Brit. /ˈbɒtʃi/, U.S. /ˈbɑtʃi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch n.2, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < botch n.2 + -y suffix1.
Clumsily executed; unskilful; shoddy; characterized by botches (botch n.2 1, 2).
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together
cloutedc1380
bodged1519
botched1537
tinkerly?1576
tinker-like1596
cobbled1798
botchy1843
bodgie1905
haywire1905
bodgied1974
bodgied-up1988
1843 Artist & Amateur's Mag. 1 230 Nature never works in a botchy way.
1879 G. M. Hopkings Let. in Corr. (2013) I. 346 Each verse a work of art, no botchy places.
1905 Quanah (Texas) Tribune-Chief 20 Apr. We do all kind of printing except the poor kind... If you are satisfied with the botchy kind, then good-bye.
1922 Motor Age 26 Jan. 21/2 The architect-designed building is better designed, more harmonious.., less inclined to be botchy.
2005 Bristol Post (Nexis) 10 Feb. 15 It's just botchy, sloppy work. There are no excuses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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