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Webster 1913 Edition
Botcher
Botch′er
,Noun.
1.
One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler.
Shak.
2.
A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
3.
(Zool.)
A young salmon; a grilse.
Webster 1828 Edition
Botcher
BOTCH'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
botcher
botcher
English
Noun
botcher (plural botchers)
- (obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:
- 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.
- 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:
- A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
- 1874, The Quarterly Review (volume 137, page 388)
- Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
- 1874, The Quarterly Review (volume 137, page 388)
- A young salmon; a grilse.
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Translations
clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler
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