Dictionary

botcher en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English bocchere, bochchare, equivalent to botch + -er.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
   • Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:
2. (obsolete) chairmaker
3. A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
   • Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman. 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:
   • "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line." 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
4. A young salmon; a grilse.

Forms

Deriveds

botcherly

Relateds

botch

Translations (21)

gd mì-shnasaire (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it guastamestieri (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · cy poitsiwr (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it cianfruglione (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · ru бе́здарь (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · cs fušer (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · fi tunari (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it abborracciatore (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · ga ablálaí (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · ru сапо́жник (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it abborraccione (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · nl prutser (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · ga loitiméir (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it raffazzonatrice (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it abborracciona (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · hu kontár (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · fi mogari (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it raffazzonatore (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · cy stompiwr (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · it abborracciatrice (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler) · hu fuser (clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler)