Botch

Definition: Botch

Botch

Noun

1. An embarrassing mistake.

Verb

1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "botch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Bible

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Botch

Failure

Miss, miss one's aim, miss the mark, miss one's footing, miss stays; slip, trip, stumble; make a slip; n. blunder; make a mess of, make a botch of; bitch it, miscarry, abort, go up like a rocket and come down like the stick, come down in flames, get shot down, reckon without one's host; get the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong sow by the ear; (blunder, mismanage).

Restoration

Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds.

Unskillfulness

Verb: be unskillful; Adjective: not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder, bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of; overshoot the mark.

Blunder; (mistake); etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise; botch, botchery; bad job, sad work.

Crosswords: Botch

Music

• Anonymous Botch (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "botch": botch it ♦ botch job ♦ botch together ♦ botch up ♦ do a botch job ♦ make a botch of smth.. Additional references.

Beginning with "botch": botch-job, botch-up.

Albanian

puprri (acne, blotch, pimple, push, pustule, whelk), punë e dobët, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد بعمل سقيم, ‏قرح (blister, gall, sore, ulcerate), ‏عمل غير متقن (boggle, bungle, sloppy work), ‏عمل أخرق, ‏عمل بطريقة خرقاء, ‏رقعة غير متقنة, ‏رقع (cobble, patch, piece, repair, sew), ‏بثرة (acne, bleb, pap, pimple, pock, pustule, vesicle, wart, whelk). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кръпка (mend, patch, patching), лошо извършена работа, поправям лошо. (various references)

Czech

fušerská práce. (various references)

Dutch

modderen (bungle, screw up, spoil), knoeien (bungle, defraud, screw up, spoil, swindle), beunhazen (bungle, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Esperanto

fuŝi (bungle, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Faeroese

bongla (bungle, screw up, spoil), klombra (bungle, screw up, spoil), fesja (bungle, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Farsi 

کارسرهم بندی (Patchwork), وصله وپینه بدنما, ورم (Bulge, Bunny, Dropsy, Tumor, Welt), سنبل کردن (Bunlge, Fumble), خراب کردن (Amortize, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack, Wreck), ازشکل انداختن (Contort, Deface, Deform, Disfigure). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä tökerösti (bungle), hutiloida (bungle, do . . carelessly, scampt, screw up, spoil). (various references)

French

bousiller, bousillé, saboter, rafistoler, pièce rafistolé, gâcher. (various references)

German

verpfuschen (bungle, fault, hash up, mess up, muck up, ruin, spoil, to botch, to bungle). (various references)

Greek 

κακοφτιάχνω (bungle), κακοτεχνώ (skimp), μπάλωμα (darn, makeshift, patch). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתקן בצור�" �'ס�", לפספס (crumb, lose, miss the target, muff, separate), לכלב (stitch). (various references)

Hungarian

kontármunka (botchery, bungle, tinker), tákolmány (lash-up, machination, patchwork, quickie, quicky), fusermunka. (various references)

Indonesian

merusak (blight, corrode, deflower, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, impair, wreck), mengarut. (various references)

Italian

rattoppare (cobble, mend, patch, patch up, tinker), rafforzamento (confirmation, fortification, reinforcement), pasticcio (bungle, fix, jam, mess, pasty, Patty, pie, trouble). (various references)

Manx

milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, mar, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish), jannoo brock jeh (bungle, fumble, mismanage, spoil, waste, waste food), brock (bungle, cock-up, fiasco, hash, muddle, refuse, remains; badger, slip up, wastage). (various references)

Pig Latin

otchbay.(various references)

Portuguese

borrar (bedaub, blob, blot, blue-pencil, bungle, daub, ink, slubber, smudge, spoil), trabalho mal feito, trabalharmal (bungle, spoil), remendo (clout, mend, mending, patch, piece, tinker), remendar (bushel, clout, darn, fudge, mend, patch, patch up, piece, revamp, run up, slubber, vamp), fazer� spressas (bungle, spoil), estragar (blunder, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), conserto (darn, darning, mend, mending, refit, refitment, repair, reparation). (various references)

Romanian

rasoli o treabã, lucru fãcut de mântuialã (guess-work), lucra prost (bungle), lucra de mântuialã, cârpi (bungle, cobble, darn, mend, patch up, piece, repair, spoil, stitch up, vamp, vamp up), cârpealã, cârpãci (bungle, mess, mess up, muddle, patch up). (various references)

Russian 

неумело латать, небрежная работа, заплата (clout, patch, vamp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

praviti grube zakrpe, loša izrada, gruba zakrpa. (various references)

Spanish

remiendo (mend, repair, vamp), farfullar (babble, gibber, jabber, mutter, patter, splutter), chapucería (botchery), chapucear (blunder, botch up, bungle, dabble, fumble, scamp, skimp). (various references)

Swedish

laga illa, fuskverk (patchwork, scamping), fuska (cheat, crib, dabble, faked, frame up, scamp), fusk (cheat, cheating, cheats, frame up, scamping), förfuska (bungle, mismanage). (various references)

Thai

ผลงานที่แย่, ทำผิ�"พลา�" (fluff, muff), ซ่อมแซมอย่างลวกๆ. (various references)

Turkish

bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate), beceriksizce yapılmış iş, becerememek (boggle, bungle, bust, do badly, fail, goof, goof up, make sorry show, muddle, muff), yamalamak (piece), yama (darn, patch, vamp), yüzüne gözüne bulaştırmak (boggle, bungle, crab, fluff, foozle, goof up, hash, hash up, make a hash of, make a mess of, make cock-up of smth., mess things up, mess up, muddle, scamp), kaba yama, azdirmak (bungle, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Ukrainian

спартачити (botch up), робити погано, виразка (canker, ulcer), невміло латати, латка (clout, patch, vamp), поганий працівник (bungler, tinker). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc l� m vụng (bungle), việc l� m hỏng sự chấp vá, sự vá víu. (various references)

Welsh

bwn.glerwaith (bungle), bwn.glera (bungle), stompio (beat, bungle, mess, pound), stomp (bungle, mess, muddle), pendduyn (boil). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "botch": botched, botcher, botcheries, botchers, botchery, botches, botchier, botchiest, botchily, botching, botchy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Botch" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Batcha, batchi, beotch, betcha, bich, bicth, biotch, bitc, bitchs, Bitchu, Bitci, bitcy, bithc, boach, boch, Bochco, bocht, boitch, bonch, Booch, Boonchu, Borch, bosch, Boschi, botah, botcha, botche, botha, boucho, boychik, Boychuk, btch, btech, buch, Budoch, buntch, Butko, butoh, Foutch, Foxtech, Gotsch, Obdc, Vojtech. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: both.

-2 letters: bot, cob, cot, hob, hot, tho.

-3 letters: bo, ho, oh, to.

+1 letter: blotch, botchy.

+2 letters: biotech, blotchy, borscht, botched, botcher, botches, cohabit.

+3 letters: beclothe, bioethic, biotechs, birrotch, blotched, blotches, borschts, botchers, botchery, botchier, botchily, botching, buckshot, cohabits, cohobate, hecatomb, matchbox, outbitch.

+4 letters: aitchbone, backcloth, beclothed, beclothes, benthonic, bioethics, blotchier, blotchily, blotching, blowtorch, botchiest, brochette, buckshots, buckthorn, bucktooth, cohabited, cohobated, cohobates, hecatombs, matchbook, notchback, thornback, throwback, touchable, touchback.