botcher
nounEtymology From Middle English bocchere, bochchare, equivalent to botch + -er.
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Obsolete A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
- 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:
2
Obsolete chairmaker
3
A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
- 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:
- "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 77:
4
A young salmon; a grilse.