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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɒt͡ʃ/
• (General American) IPA: /bɑt͡ʃ/
• 韻: -ɒtʃ

語源 1

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

動詞

botch (third-person singular simple present botches, present participle botching, simple past and past participle botched) (transitive)

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

   Synonyms: ruin, bungle; see also Thesaurus:spoil

   A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.

   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 75, column 1:

     And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]

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

   (Can we add an example for this sense? )

3. To mend or repair (something) clumsily.

   Synonyms: bodge; see also Thesaurus:kludge

派生語

名詞

botch (plural 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, [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; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.

   Synonym: bungler

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Æsculapius to the Rescue”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 149:

     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-by.

派生語

関連する語

• bodge

参考

• foul up
• mess up
• screw up

語源 2

From 中期英語 botche, from Anglo-Norman boche, from Late Latin bocia (“boss”).

名詞

botch (plural botches)

1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, 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, 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.