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Definition: Botched |
BotchedAdjective1. Spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "botched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1889. (references) |
Synonym: BotchedSynonym: bungled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Botched |
| English words defined with "botched": balls-up, ballup ♦ cockup ♦ mess-up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "botched": Long Words. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | They botched it (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) You know, they botched my vasectomy (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I've got an angry inch (Hedwig and the Angry Inch; writing credit: John Cameron Mitchell; Stephen Trask) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Yemen | A botched rescue attempt during a May 2000 kidnapping of a Norwegian citizen, however, resulted in his death. (references) |
Political Economy | Yemen | They are generally released unharmed, although a botched rescue attempt during a June 2000 kidnapping of a Norwegian tourist resulted in his death. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Cary Goldstein | The only thing I do know is that we have been telling the police, Marge in particular told the police, about a botched attempt that Bonny had told us about, when Caldwell, Blake and Bonny were out in the desert camping. |
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| "Botched" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.00% of the time. "Botched" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 52% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 30% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 16% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "botched": botched job. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "botched": botched-job, botched-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
botched execution | 12 |
botched plastic surgery | 8 |
botched picture plastic surgery | 7 |
botched circumcision | 5 |
botched | 4 |
botched job nose | 3 |
botched ear piercing | 2 |
botched abortion | 2 |
boob botched job | 2 |
botched cosmetic surgery | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "botched"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | hätiköity työ (a botched piece of work). (various references) | |
German | verpfuschte (bungled), gesudelt. (various references) | |
Greek | άρπα-κόλλα (botched work). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otchedbay.(various references) | |
Ukrainian | спартачений, залатаний. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Botched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bitchen, bosche, Boschek, botcha, botche, bouche, boychik, Boychuk, brotched, butche, otched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "botched" (pronounced bÄ"kht) |
| 3 | -Ä" kh t | notched, scotched, watched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-h-o-t" | |
-1 letter: hotbed. | |
-2 letters: boche, botch, coted, doeth. | |
-3 letters: beth, bode, both, code, coed, cote, debt, deco, dote, doth, echo, etch, hoed, ohed, toed. | |
-4 letters: bed, bet, bod, bot, cob, cod, cot, deb, doc, doe, dot, edh, eth, het, hob, hod, hoe, hot, obe, ode, ted, the, tho, tod, toe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, de, do, ed, eh. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-h-o-t" | |
+1 letter: blotched. | |
+2 letters: beclothed, cohabited, cohobated. | |
+3 letters: bedclothes, outbitched. | |
+4 letters: bichromated, bucktoothed, debouchment. | |
+5 letters: carbohydrate, debouchments, turbocharged. | |
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