Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Marked with botches; full of or covered with botches: as, “a botchy core,”
  • Imperfect; botched.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Marked with botches; full of botches; poorly done.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Full of botches or mistakes; poorly done.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective poorly done

Etymologies

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botch +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Though the botchy botch is funny, what the heck is unexpected semen supposed to mean?

    Unexcepted Seamen 2010

  • In my experience, this crowd tends to have botchy skin and threadbare beards and read too much =any Ayn Rand.

    NO BASEBALL HATS!! PeaceBang 2006

  • And those boils did run? say so: did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?

    Troilus and Cressida 2004

  • But it was just silly to have such similar situations — of course some worked in sawmills, and some were part-time farmers and mill workers, and I've forgotten what the third was (there were three main industries) — and it would have looked just too botchy, you know, too sparse each one, too sparse or repetitious.

    Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1976

  • The hat trade grew so that sometimes there were six rather botchy little bonnets all done up in yellow paper pyramids with a pin at the top, awaiting their future wearers.

    Half Portions Edna Ferber 1926

  • The hat trade grew so that sometimes there were six rather botchy little bonnets all done up in yellow paper pyramids with a pin at the top, awaiting their future wearers.

    One Basket Edna Ferber 1926

  • Say so, did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?

    Act II. Scene I. Troilus and Cressida 1914

  • The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work.

    The Bread-winners A Social Study John Hay 1870

  • And those byles did run (say so), did not the gene-rall run then, were not that a botchy core.

    The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition) 1609

  • And those boils did run? say so: did not the general run then? were not that a botchy core?

    Troilus and Cressida 1601

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