botchy

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botch

(bŏch)

tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es

1. To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude: botch a tennis shot; botch a rebellion.

2. To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.

1. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

2. A hodgepodge.

[Middle English bocchen, to mend.]

botch′er n.

botch′y adj.

Synonyms: botch, blow¹, bungle, butcher, fumble, muff¹
These verbs mean to harm or spoil through ineptitude or clumsiness: botch a repair; blow an opportunity; bungle an interview; butchered the haircut; fumbled my chance to apologize; muffed the last play of the game.

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botchy

(ˈbɒtʃɪ)

adj, botchier or botchiest

clumsily done or made

ˈbotchily adv

ˈbotchiness n

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botch•y

(ˈbɒtʃ i)

adj. botch•i•er, botch•i•est.

poorly made or done; bungled.

[1350–1400]

botch′i•ly, adv.

botch′i•ness, n.

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Adj.

botchy - poorly done; "a botchy piece of work"; "it was an unskillful attempt"

butcherly, unskillful

unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship"

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botchy

adj (inf) → verpfuscht, vermurkst (inf)

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