botcher

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7

Definition of botcher

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)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.”
See all 4 definitions

noun

  1. (obsolete)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. (obsolete)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.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

Anagrams of botcher

1 play · some not in Scrabble

Hooks

2 extensions · 2 back

A single letter you can add to botcher to make another valid word.

Find your best play with botcher

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes botcher, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.