Botch

n.	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.
v. t.	1.	To mark with, or as with, botches. [imp. & p. p. Botched ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] Young Hylas, botched with stains. - Garth.
	2.	To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; - sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. - Robynson (More's Utopia).
	3.	To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. - Dryden.

Noun	1.	botch - an embarrassing mistake Synonyms: blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, bloomer
Verb	1.	botch - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" Synonyms: bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blow

anamorphosis, bad job, bad likeness, bat out, be all thumbs, bevue, bitch up, blight, blow, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botchery, bugger up, bumble, bungling, burlesque, butcher, caricature, clumsy performance, cobble, commit a gaffe, confuse, dash off, daub, destroy, disorder, distortion, do anyhow, do by halves, do carelessly, do offhand, dub, error, etourderie, fake up, faux pas, fiasco, flounder, flub, fluff, flunk, foozle, fudge up, gaffe, gaucherie, goof up, gum up, haphazardness, hash, indiscretion, jury-rig, knock off, knock out, knock together, lash up, loose ends, louse up, lumber, make a blunder, make a misstep, mangle, mar, mess, mess up, messiness, misconduct, miscue, misdraw, mismanage, mispaint, misspeak, mistake, mix-up, muck, muck up, mucker, muddle, mull, murder, muss, mutilate, off day, parody, patch, patch together, patch up, play havoc with, play hell with, pound out, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, ruin, sad work, scratch, screw up, scribble, shambles, slap up, slapdash, slip, slipshoddiness, slipshodness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slovenly performance, slovenry, sluttishness, solecism, spoil, stumble, stupidity, throw off, throw together, tinker, toss off, toss out, toss together, travesty, trifle with, trip, untidiness, washout, whomp up, wreck

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