Definitions for botch

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IPA: /bɒtʃ/

Botch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in botch (bchot).

Definitions for botch

noun

1. a clumsy or poor piece of work; mess; bungle:
2. a clumsily added part or patch.
3. a disorderly or confused combination; conglomeration.
4. a swelling on the skin; a boil.
5. an eruptive disease.

verb (used with object)

1. to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed by up):
2. to do or say in a bungling manner.
3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner.

Origin of botch

1350-1400; Middle English bocchen to patch up; perhaps to be identified with bocchen to swell up, bulge (verbal derivative of bocche botch²), though sense

Examples for botch

And this indefinite "some one" will, needless to say, make a botch of it.

Both of them have made a botch of their errand,” said he, “and are causing the bride to wait in vain!

I could see patches of light sky through it, it was such a botch.

You will have to give me instructions, and though I may botch the business, I'll save the meat.

They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed.

Are you not afraid that you might make a botch out of the whole job?

Work that is not finished, is not work at all; it is merely a botch.

Mr. Primefit, the Eton Stultz, is changed into botch, the cobbler.

He'd botch it, as he's botched everything foreign-policy related in this campaign.

They've been running it for thousands of years—and look at the botch they've made of it!