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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024botch1 /bɑtʃ/USA pronunciation v. - to spoil by poor or clumsy work;
bungle: [~ + object]He botched the throw to first base.[~ + up + object]He botched up every job we gave him.[~ + object + up]He botched it up; I can tell.[no object* ~ + up]He always botches up.
n. [countable] - a poor piece of work;
mess;
bungle:He's made a real botch of that paint job.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024botch1 (boch),USA pronunciation v.t. - to spoil by poor work; bungle (often fol. by up):He botched up the job thoroughly.
- to do or say in a bungling manner.
- to mend or patch in a clumsy manner.
n. - a clumsy or poor piece of work;
mess;
bungle:He made a complete botch of his first attempt at baking. - a clumsily added part or patch.
- a disorderly or confused combination;
conglomeration.
- 1350–1400; Middle English bocchen to patch up; perh. to be identified with bocchen to swell up, bulge (verb, verbal derivative of bocche botch2), though sense development unclear
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged ruin, mismanage; muff, butcher, flub.
botch2 (boch),USA pronunciation n. - a swelling on the skin;
a boil. - an eruptive disease.
- Old French boche, dialect, dialectal variant of boce boss2
- Middle English bocche 1350–1400
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