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botch

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
botch /bɒtʃ/ informal

▶verb carry out (a task) badly or carelessly. ▶noun (also botch-up) a badly carried out task.

– derivatives
botcher noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘repair’ but orig. not implying clumsiness): of unknown origin.

'botch' also found in these Oxford entries:

blotch - bodge - flub

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