Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - botch
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Botch
botch
(botches, botching, botched) 1. If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. (INFORMAL) It is a silly idea and he has botched it. ...a botched job. = bungle VERB: V n, V-ed • Botch up means the same as botch. I hate having builders botch up repairs on my house... Hemingway complained that Nichols had ‘botched everything up’. = mess up PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 2. If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it. (INFORMAL) I rather made a botch of that whole thing. = mess N-COUNT: usu sing
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1.
I. noun Etymology: Middle English boche, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar Latin *bottia boss Date: 14th century an inflammatory sore II. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English bocchen Date: 1530 1. to foul up hopelessly — often used with up 2. to put together in a makeshift way • ~er noun III. noun Date: 1605 1. something that is ~ed ; mess 2. patchwork, hodgepodge • ~y adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
v. & n. (also bodge) --v.tr. 1 bungle; do badly. 2 patch or repair clumsily. --n. bungled or spoilt work (made a botch of it). Derivatives botcher n. Etymology: ME: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. заплата 2. плохо, небрежно сделанная работа to make a botch —- напортачить he made a miserable botch of this article —- он совершенно испортил эту статью 3. плохой работник, неумеха 4. неумело латать 5. портить; делать плохо или небрежно to botch a block of marble —- испортить кусок мрамора 6. состряпать to botch up an essay —- состряпать статейку 7. диал. прыщ; язва ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
1. noun 1) заплата 2) плохо сделанная работа 2. v. 1) неумело латать 2) делать небрежно; портить - botch up BOTCH up делать небрежно; портить If John botches up his driving test again, I doubt if hell ever pass it. The last electrician botched up this job; I hope you can mend the wires. ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~1 also botch up ~ v informal to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly (The builders really botched up our patio.) - botcher n ~2 also botch-up ~ n informal especially BrE a piece of work, job etc that has been badly or carelessly done (make a botch of) (I've just made an awful botch of my translation. | botch job) (That repair was a botch job.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 14c., bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1530), of unknown origin. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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