botch

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
3. To repair or mend clumsily.

Noun

1. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
2. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

Conceptes

adobassar

cagar-la

espatllar

fotre

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pastifejar

potinejar

arruïnar

bunyol

nyap

espifiada

pífia

esguerrar

espifiar

fer barroerament

Sinònims

bungle

spoil

flub

screw up

mess up

blunder

ruin

bumble

muff

bodge

blow

foul up

botch up

do badly

louse up

fumble

ball up

bloomer

blooper

bobble

bollix

bollocks

boner

boo-boo

fluff

foul-up

fuckup

fuck up

mess

mishandle

muck up

pratfall

bollix up

bollocks up

make a mess of

patch

darn

make a mistake

screw

hash

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skimp

slip up

goof up

tinker

make a slip

wreck

concoction

slapdash/careless work

botched job

err

Traduccions

gâcher

verpfuschen

bousiller

chapucear

acciarpare

abborracciare

chapucería

modderen

beunhazen

μπάλωμα

rater

knoeien

Pfusch

Murks

Machwerk

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɒt͡ʃ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: bocchen

Heretat de anglès antic: bōtettan

In summary

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.