Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imperfect; botched.
- Marked with botches; full of or covered with botches: as, “a botchy core,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.
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- adjective Full of
botches ormistakes ; poorly done.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective poorly done
Etymologies
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Examples
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Though the botchy botch is funny, what the heck is unexpected semen supposed to mean?
Unexcepted Seamen 2010
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In my experience, this crowd tends to have botchy skin and threadbare beards and read too much =any Ayn Rand.
NO BASEBALL HATS!! PeaceBang 2006
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And those boils did run? say so: did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?
Troilus and Cressida 2004
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But it was just silly to have such similar situations — of course some worked in sawmills, and some were part-time farmers and mill workers, and I've forgotten what the third was (there were three main industries) — and it would have looked just too botchy, you know, too sparse each one, too sparse or repetitious.
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The hat trade grew so that sometimes there were six rather botchy little bonnets all done up in yellow paper pyramids with a pin at the top, awaiting their future wearers.
Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926
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The hat trade grew so that sometimes there were six rather botchy little bonnets all done up in yellow paper pyramids with a pin at the top, awaiting their future wearers.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1926
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Say so, did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?
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The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work.
The Bread-winners A Social Study John Hay 1870
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And those byles did run (say so), did not the gene-rall run then, were not that a botchy core.
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And those boils did run? say so: did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?
Troilus and Cressida 1601
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