Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grilse: a local English name in the Severn valley.
- noun A mender; a repairer or patcher; specifically, a tailor who does repairing.
- noun One who botches; a clumsy, bungling workman; a bungler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
- noun A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
- noun (Zoöl.) A young salmon; a grilse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A person who
mends things, especially such acobbler ortailor - noun A
clumsy orincompetent worker; abungler - noun A young
salmon ; agrilse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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Examples
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There was never a better workman than he -- while I am only a 'botcher' -- and so generous and good-natured, wearing his heart on his sleeve.
Ten Tales Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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Why is the valorization of a contingency beyond necessity, as we'll see Agamben defining it, not routed back through the heightened literary convolutions of "phonetic spelling" after all, in instances more ambitious and self-searching than that of Stoker's Cockney botcher?
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But Strock IS there, well, at least he stops by every few months, and we know what a botcher of jobs and cover-up apologist he is.
Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan 2006
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Was Kerry’s comment a veiled reference to our “Câ€-student botcher-in-chief?
Think Progress » Kerry Says ‘I’m Sorry’ on MSNBC, Snow Still Claiming He Hasn’t Apologized 2006
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But Strock IS there, well, at least he stops by every few months, and we know what a botcher of jobs and cover-up apologist he is.
Printing: Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan 2006
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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.
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Scotland, without troubling the botcher above once a quarter —
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I may signify the ridiculous and bold dealing of an vnknowne botcher: but
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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But what he took was by right of eminent domain; and was he not to resuscitate a theme and make it immortal, because some botcher had tried his hand upon it before, and left it for stone-dead?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Her distress was so unfeigned that Octavius, not being a woman, comforted her by telling her he was a great botcher.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
sionnach commented on the word botcher
Tailor or cobbler who mends and repairs.
July 9, 2008
bilby commented on the word botcher
"When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 28, 2009