botch

botch  (bch)

tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es

1. To ruin through clumsiness.

2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle.

3. To repair or mend clumsily.

n.

1. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

2. A hodgepodge.

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[Middle English bocchen, to mend.]

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botcher n.

botchy adj.

Synonyms: botch, blow¹, bungle, fumble, muff¹
These verbs mean to harm or spoil through inept or clumsy handling: botch a repair; blow an opportunity; bungle an interview; fumbled my chance to apologize; muffed the painting job.

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botch

Verb

1. to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude

2. to repair badly or clumsily

Noun

also botch-up

a badly done piece of work or repair [origin unknown]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	botch - an embarrassing mistake               blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, bloomer error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie - a socially awkward or tactless act howler - a glaring blunder clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
Verb	1.	botch - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blow go wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

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botch

verb 1. spoil, mar, bungle, fumble, screw up (informal) mess up, cock up Brit. (slang) mismanage, muff, make a nonsense of (informal) bodge (informal) make a pig's ear of (informal) flub U.S. (slang) crool or cruel Austral. (slang)

noun 2. mess, failure, blunder, miscarriage, bungle, bungling, fumble, hash, cock-up Brit. (slang) pig's ear (informal) pig's breakfast (informal)

Translations

botch [bɔtʃ] vt (also: botch up) → arruinar, estropear

botch [bɔtʃ] vt (also: botch up) → saboter, bâcler

botch [bɔtʃ] vt (also: botch up) → verpfuschen

botch [bɔtʃ] vt → fare un pasticcio di