botcher

English

Etymology

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

Noun

botcher (plural botchers)

1. (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:

     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. (obsolete) chairmaker
3. A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
   • 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:

     Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.

4. A young salmon; a grilse.

Derived terms

• botcherly

 

Related terms

• botch

Translations

clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler

• Czech: fušer (cs) m
• Dutch: prutser (nl)
• Finnish: tunari (fi); mogari (fi) (slang)
• Hungarian: fuser (hu), kontár (hu)
• Irish: ablálaí m, loitiméir m
• Italian: abborracciatore (it) m, abborracciatrice (it) f, abborracciona (it) f, abborraccione (it) m, cianfruglione m, guastamestieri m or f, raffazzonatore m, raffazzonatrice f
• Russian: бе́здарь (ru) f (bézdarʹ), сапо́жник (ru) m (sapóžnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-shnasaire m
• Welsh: poitsiwr m, stompiwr m

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