botch
verb (used with object)
to spoil by poor work; bungle (often followed byup ).
botcher
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a word derived from
botch.
Example Sentences
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One of the most effective hucksters on eastern TV is a bashful botcher who muffs his lines, meanders off-camera, even mumbles his apologies for intruding on TViewers' time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by William Shakespeare
Tink′ler: the act of doing tinker's work: a botcher or bungler: a botch or bungle: a young mackerel.—v.t. to repair, esp. unskilfully.—v.i. to do tinker's work: to make a botch or mess of anything.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In the translation of The Conscript by Erckmann-Chatrian, the old botcher is turned into the old butcher.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
I am brought to fine uses, to become a botcher of second-hand marriages between Abigails and Andrews!
From The Way of the World by William Congreve
