Word Definition

Botch

  1. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
  2. To mark with, or as with, botches.
  3. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  4. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
  5. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  6. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.