| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To flunk, abort or fail.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb botch.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (botch) | 1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out".[Wordnet]. 2. To mark with, or as with, botches.[Websters]. 3. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.[Websters]. 4. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: botching, botched, botches, botcher, botchers, botchingly and botchedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BOTCHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1779. (references) |
Specialty Definition: botch
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Bible | Botch the name given in Deut. 28:27, 35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Ex. 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | Botch A patch. Botch and patch are the same word; the older form was bodge, whence boggle. (Italian pezzo, pronounced patzo.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | BOTCH. A nick name for a taylor. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | Botch was a mathcore band from Tacoma, Washington, that formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002. Its members went on to form Roy, Minus the Bear, and These Arms are Snakes among others. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: botch
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Botch (professional wrestling) | To botch in professional wrestling means to attempt a scripted move that does not come out as it was originally planned, due to a mistake, a miscalculation, or a slip-up. Most botches are harmless, such as a wrestler falling backwards before his opponent's foot actually touches his face, inciting the fans to chant "You fucked up!" But some botches are extremely dangerous and can end a wrestler's career on the spot; for example, former WWF wrestler D'Lo Brown once botched a powerbomb on his opponent Darren Drozdov, resulting in Drozdov being paralyzed from the waist down. Botches can even end a wrestler's life; Owen Hart died during the 1999 Over the Edge event when he fell 90 feet into the ring when a safety harness supporting him during his ring entrance failed. The only reason TV viewers did not see the incident was because the director had cut away to a pre-taped promo. (references) | ||
| Botch up | Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Topics by Level of Interest: botch | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Botch | 18 | Botch | 18 | |
| Botch (professional wrestling) | 8 | Botch (band) | 8 | |
| Botch (band) | 8 | Botch (professional wrestling) | 8 | |
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