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botcher

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from bocchere

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. chairmaker

  3. A clumsy or incompetent worker

    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.
    • "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A young salmon

      A young salmon; a grilse.

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Derived

botcherly

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA