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▪ I. † ˈbotching, vbl. n.1 Obs. rare—1.
[f. botch n.1 + -ing1.]
The forming of botches or boils.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxi. (1495) 245 By botchynge of the lounges all the body is wasted.
▪ II. botching, vbl. n.2|ˈbɒtʃɪŋ|
[f. botch v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of repairing or mending; clumsy patching; unskilful or bungling work.
c1440Promp. Parv. 5 A bocchement, or a bocchynge, augmentum. a1535Fisher Wks. 358 O corruptible body which..dayly needeth reprations and botching vp with meate and drinke. 1656Sanderson Serm. (1689) 392 The botching in of a course shred into a fine garment. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. &c. 98 That patching and botching with Solder. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) I. ix. 159, I set to work a-tailoring, or rather indeed a-botching. 1865Ruskin Eth. Dust v. (1883) 87 All doubt, and repenting, and botching, and retouching, and wondering what it will be best to do next, are vice, as well as misery.
▪ III. botching, ppl. a.|ˈbɒtʃɪŋ|
[f. botch v. + -ing2.]
That botches; repairing, jobbing; bungling.
1598Florio, Taccola..a patching, or botching piece of worke, a bungling. 1661S. Partridge Double Scale Proportion To Rdr., The fault is in the botching Taylor, not in the stuffe. 1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xxviii. (1857) 424 An old botching carpenter. |