单词 | botchy |
释义 | † botchyadj.1 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 Clumsily executed; unskilful; shoddy; characterized by botches (botch n.2 1, 2). ΘΚΠ 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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