Bodge vs. Botch — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bodge and Botch
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Bodge
To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
Botch
Carry out (a task) badly or carelessly
He was accused of botching the job
Bodge
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
Botch
A bungled task
I've probably made a botch of things
Bodge
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
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Botch
To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude
Botch a tennis shot.
Botch a rebellion.
Bodge
(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
Botch
To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.
Bodge
(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
Botch
A ruined or defective piece of work
"I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
Bodge
Insane, off the rails.
Botch
A hodgepodge.
Bodge
A botch; a patch.
Botch
(transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
Bodge
To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
Botch
To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
Bodge
See Budge.
Botch
To repair or mend clumsily.
Botch
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
Botch
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
Botch
A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
Botch
A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
Botch
(archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
Botch
(obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
Botch
A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
Botch
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
Botch
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
Botch
Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
To leave no rubs nor botches in the work.
Botch
To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains.
Botch
To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; - sometimes with up.
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time.
Botch
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
Botch
An embarrassing mistake
Botch
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin;
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
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