Word Meanings - BOTCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling

Additional info about word: BOTCH

1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. 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. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BOTCH)

• Boggle
• Halt
• hesitate
• dubitate
• falter
• blunder
• blotch
• botch
• spoil
• mar
• Cobble
• Patch
• bungle
• clout
• Botch
• cobble
• piece

Related words: (words related to BOTCH)

• BOGGLE
  1. To stop or hesitate as if suddenly frightened, or in doubt, or impeded by unforeseen difficulties; to take alarm; to exhibit hesitancy and indecision. We start and boggle at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth
• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• BOGGLER
  One who boggles.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• SPOIL
  1. To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• BOTCHER
  A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
• BLOTCHED
  Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.
• SPOILER
  1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. 2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• DISPATCHMENT
  The act of dispatching. State Trials .
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.