3. 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.
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
Shak.
Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.] 1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains.
Garth.
2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
Dryden.
Botch"ed*ly (&?;), adv. In a clumsy manner.
Botch"er (&?;), n. 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.