botcher
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bocchere, bochchare, equivalent to botch + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]botcher (plural botchers)
- (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.
- (obsolete) chairmaker
- 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.
- A young salmon; a grilse.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler
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