botcher

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor. obsolete
    — Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
  2. chairmaker obsolete
  3. A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
    — Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
  4. A young salmon; a grilse.

词形变化

botchers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
botcherly
相关词
botch

词源

From Middle English bocchere, bochchare, equivalent to botch + -er.
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