botch

verb

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

   “A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.”

   “And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]”

2. (transitive)To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
3. (transitive)To mend or repair (something) clumsily.

noun

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

   “That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:”

2. (transitive)A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. (transitive)A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
4. (transitive)A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. (archaic, transitive)One who makes a mess of something.

   “If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.”

6. (obsolete, transitive)A tumour or other malignant swelling.

   “Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,”

7. (transitive)A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

   “The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.”