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5 lettersPronunciation /bɒt͡ʃ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted bchotStarts with BEnds with H0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an embarrassing mistake

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
  • And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]
  • That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:

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