botch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To ruin through clumsiness.
2. v. To make or perform clumsily; bungle.
3. v. To repair or mend clumsily.
4. n. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description” ( Nathaniel Hawthorne).
5. n. A hodgepodge.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil.
2. To mark with botches.
3. To mend or patch in a clumsy manner, as a garment: often used figuratively.
4. To put together unsuitably or unskilfully; perform, express, etc., in a bungling manner; hence, to spoil by unskilful work; bungle.
5. To mend or patch things in an unskilful manner; be a bungler or botcher.
6. n. A bungled or ill-finished part; a flaw; a blemish.
7. n. A patch, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
8. n. That which is botched; ill-finished or bungled work generally.
9. n. A bungling, unskilful workman or operator of any kind; a botcher.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.
2. v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
3. n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
4. n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
5. n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
6. n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
7. n. obsolete A tumour or other malignant swelling.
8. n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Obs. or Dial. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
2. n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. n. 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.
4. v. To mark with, or as with, botches.
5. v. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
6. v. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an embarrassing mistake
2. v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin