Botch

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  • transitive verb. To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude.
  • transitive verb. To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.
  • noun. A ruined or defective piece of work.
  • noun. A hodgepodge.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil.
  • To mark with botches.
  • To mend or patch in a clumsy manner, as a garment: often used figuratively.
  • To put together unsuitably or unskilfully; perform, express, etc., in a bungling manner; hence, to spoil by unskilful work; bungle.
  • To mend or patch things in an unskilful manner; be a bungler or botcher.
  • noun. A bungled or ill-finished part; a flaw; a blemish.
  • noun. A patch, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • noun. That which is botched; ill-finished or bungled work generally.
  • noun. A bungling, unskilful workman or operator of any kind; a botcher.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  • noun. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • noun. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
  • transitive verb. To mark with, or as with, botches.
  • transitive verb. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
  • transitive verb. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  • noun. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
  • verb. To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.
  • verb. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
  • noun. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
  • noun. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
  • noun. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
  • noun. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an embarrassing mistake
  • verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • cross-reference
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fail  go wrong  miscarry  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boche  Scotch  crotch  gotch  lauch  
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