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botcher

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Wiktionary

noun

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

  1. A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.

    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
  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.

    "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."

  4. A young salmon; a grilse.