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单词 botchment
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botchmentn.

Forms: late Middle English bochment, late Middle English bochement, late Middle English botchement, late Middle English busshement, 1500s botchment.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: botch v.1, -ment suffix.
Etymology: Apparently < botch v.1 + -ment suffix, perhaps originally denoting something additional offered in a commercial transaction or settlement of compensation.With a busshement in quot. a1425 perhaps compare the following (perhaps compare a- prefix1): ▸ 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 5 A-bocchement, or a-bocchynge, augmentum. ▸ 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 331 Mekkynge [?a1475 Winch. mekkyng, a1500 King's Cambr. mekment, or bochement, a1500 BL Add. 37789 meckynge], or a-botchement in byynge, amplificamentum, supplementum, augmentum.
Obsolete.
An addition. Also: a thing given as compensation, or in exchange, for another.
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun] > person or thing exchanged
pricea1300
botchmenta1425
changinga1425
exchange1490
tit for tat1546
changeling?1548
some and some1573
tip for tap1573
quid pro quo1816
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 8 Auctorium, a busshement..quod additur rei mensurate.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 42 Bochment [1499 Pynson botchement], additamentum.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Di Gyue me thy dogge and I am content And thou shalte haue my hauke to a botchment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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