Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Botch

Botch ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 compare Dutch botsen to beat, akin to English beat.]

1.
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obsolete or Dialectal]
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. — Milton
2.
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
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. — Shakespeare

Botch ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[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 bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. — Dryden