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語源 1

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from 古期英語 bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Duplet to bodge.

動詞

botch (三人称単数 現在形 botches, 現在分詞 botching, 過去形および過去分詞形 botched)

1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

   Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil

   A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.

2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. To repair or mend clumsily.

   Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge

派生語

• botch up

名詞

botch (複数形 botches)

1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], page 140, column 2:

     That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:

2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.

   Synonym: bungler

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], OCLC 18952474:

     If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good-natured—he's a gentleman, Sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-bye.

派生語

関連する語

• bodge

参考

• foul up
• mess up
• screw up

語源 2

From Middle English botche, from Anglo-Norman boche, from Late Latin bocia (“boss”).

名詞

botch (複数形 botches)

1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, line 1071:

     Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,

2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 28:27:

     The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.