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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Botch \Botch\, n.; pl. {Botches}. [Same as Boss a stud. For
   senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
   1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a
      boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]

            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.

Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Botching}.] [See {Botch}, n.]
   1. To mark with, or as with, botches.

            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 spoil or mar, as by
      unskillful work.

            For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
                                                  --Dryden.

資料來源 : WordNet®

botch
     n : an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper}, {bloomer},
          {bungle}, {foul-up}, {fuckup}, {flub}, {boner}, {boo-boo}]

botch
     v : 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" [syn: {bumble}, {fumble},
          {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {flub}, {screw up}, {ball up},
          {spoil}, {muck up}, {bungle}, {fluff}, {bollix}, {bollix
         up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up}, {bobble}, {mishandle}, {louse
         up}, {foul up}, {mess up}, {fuck up}]