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单词 botch-up
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botch-upn.

Brit. /ˈbɒtʃʌp/, U.S. /ˈbɑtʃˌəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English to botch up.
Etymology: < to botch up (see botch v.1 2).
colloquial.
Originally: a thing which has been cobbled together. Later: an act of spoiling a task through incompetence or ineptitude; a mismanaged or bungled attempt or undertaking; a mess-up. Also attributive as botch-up job.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or bungled work
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1915 Punch 149 398 This bedstead of yours is made up of several different periods...It's really too much of a botch-up to command much of a price.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 697 Goodwins botchup of a concert.
1926 Freeport (Illinois) Jrnl.-Standard 1 Dec. 1/2 They would be making a botch-up job of the affair if they bought a limited amount of equipment at this time.
1963 Observer 7 Apr. 3/5 (headline) Labour's pension botch-up.
1969 Rolling Stone 28 June 11/4 He blamed..botch-ups on the part of bands for half the troubles.
1991 Guardian 27 June (Review section) 29/2 His life has generally been a bit of a botch-up.
1999 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Mar. (Sat. Mag.) 28 [A] decorator, once renowned for his botch-up jobs but now a changed man.
2000 M. A. Waller 1700: Scenes from London Life xvi. 328 The name of..Jack Catch, or Ketch, who had made such a botch-up of the Duke of Monmouth's beheading, became a byword for savagery and incompetence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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