Bodge vs. Botch

Bodgeverb

(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

Bodgeverb

To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Bodgenoun

A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

Bodgenoun

(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.

Bodgenoun

(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

Bodgeadjective

Insane, off the rails.

Bodgenoun

A botch; a patch.

Bodgeverb

To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.

Bodgeverb

See Budge.

Botchverb

(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something

Botchverb

To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.

Botchverb

To repair or mend clumsily.

Botchnoun

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

Botchnoun

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

Botchnoun

A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.

Botchnoun

A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.

Botchnoun

(archaic) One who makes a mess of something; a bungler.

Botchnoun

(obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.

Botchnoun

A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

Botchnoun

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

Botchnoun

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

Botchnoun

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.

Botchverb

To mark with, or as with, botches.

Botchverb

To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; - sometimes with up.

Botchverb

To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

Botchnoun

an embarrassing mistake

Botchverb

make a mess of, destroy or ruin;

Botchverb

carry out (a task) badly or carelessly

Botchnoun

a bungled task