Botch: Definition and part of speech

Botch

  1. n. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
  2. n. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  3. n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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