botch
verb
[ bɒtʃ ]
• carry out (a task) badly or carelessly.
• "he was accused of botching the job"
Similar:
bungle,
do badly,
do clumsily,
make a mess of,
mismanage,
mishandle,
mangle,
fumble,
mess up,
make a hash of,
hash,
muff,
fluff,
foozle,
butcher,
bodge,
make a botch of,
foul up,
bitch up,
screw up,
blow,
louse up,
make a muck of,
make a pig's ear of,
cock up,
make a Horlicks of,
flub,
goof up,
bobble,
fuck up,
bugger up,
balls up,
botch
noun
• a bungled task.
• "I've probably made a botch of things"
Similar:
mess,
fiasco,
debacle,
blunder,
failure,
wreck,
hash,
bodge,
flop,
foul-up,
screw-up,
fail,
cock-up,
pig's ear,
snafu,
fuck-up,
balls-up,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘repair’ but originally not implying clumsiness): of unknown origin.
