Dictionary entry

Botch (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Botched (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Botching.] [See Botch, n.] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches.

Young Hylas, botched with stains.

Garth.

2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; — sometimes with up.

Sick bodies... to be kept and botched up for a time.

Robynson (More's Utopia).

3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.

Dryden.